Gluten Free Rich Fruit Loaf

Name: Gluten Free Rich Fruit Loaf
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 2 h
Yield: 8 slices
Ingredients: 140g sunflower spread; 140g dark brown muscovado sugar; 3 eggs; 150g gluten free self raising flour; 50g ground almonds; 1tsp mixed spice; 300g dried mixed fruit; 60ml almond milk

This dairy and gluten free rich fruit cake is perfect any time of year but also makes a great last minute Christmas Cake!

Recipe by Alison Wheatley
Added23rd December 2015
Prep Time25 Mins
Makes8 slices

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A rich fruit cake is the traditional cake of choice at Christmas time, but it doesn't only have to be for Christmas. A lovely fruit loaf goes great with a good strong cup of tea, this one is gluten and dairy free so no need to miss out on a good slab of it. You could even pretend it's Bara Brith, it is fairly close in flavour.

This recipe is

Vegetarian

Contains

Egg
Tree Nuts

Method

In a large bowl cream together the butter and sugar with a fork.
Whisk the eggs into the sunflower spread and sugar, one egg at a time. You will end up with a runny, grainy mix which almost looks curdled.
Sieve in the flour and add the ground almonds, fold into the mix until well combined.
Add in the mixed fruit and almond milk and mix well.
Grease a large loaf tin and line with grease proof paper, place in the mix into the tin and then put in an oven preheated to gas mark 4/180c for 1 and half to 2 hours. The cake is cooked when a knife or skewer pushed into the middle comes out clean.

Nutritional Information (Per slice)

Cals

369

Carbs

59_g

Fibre

2_g

Fat

13_g

Sugar

42_g

Protein

6_g

Last updated 8th August 2025

Alison Peters has been Coeliac since June 2014 and launched Coeliac Sanctuary in August of that year, and since then has aimed to provide a one stop shop for Coeliacs, from blogs, to recipes, eating out guide and online shop.

Comments

Jill20th April 2026

Hi, can dairy milk be used instead of Almond? Thank you

Alison @ Coeliac Sanctuary20th April 2026

Yes, there is no reason it won't work with regular milk.

SANJAY KUMAR6th December 2022

Please advise how I can make a similar loaf but without using egg, as I am vegan (almost!). Also how this recipe can be made high fibre. Thanks

Alison @ Coeliac Sanctuary6th December 2022

Hi, I haven't tried so don't know if it will work but could use a flax egg or an egg replacer. For extra fibre you could maybe add apple or even nuts.

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