Chocolate Chip Fruit Cake

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Chocolate Chip Fruit Cake

Ingredients
2.25 cups (375g) sultanas
1 cup glace cherries, halved
1 cup chopped glace apricots
150g dark chocolate, chopped
185g butter, chopped
0.75 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
1 cup sweet sherry
4 eggs, lightly beaten
155g Choc Bits
1.75 cups plain flour
0.25 cups self-raising flour
0.5 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
2 tablespoons sweet sherry, extra

Method
Combine fruit, chocolate, butter, sugar and sherry in large saucepan, stir constantly over heat, without boiling, until chocolate and butter are melted. Bring to boil, reduce heat, simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes. Transfer mixture to large bowl; allow to cool to room temperature.
Grease deep 19cm square cake pan, line base and sides with 2 thicknesses greaseproof paper, bringing paper 2cm above edge of pan. Stir eggs into fruit mixture, then Choc Bits, sifted flour and soda.

Spread evenly into prepared pan, back in slow oven for about 2 hours. Brush with extra sherry, cover tightly with foil; cool in pan.

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White Chocolate

White chocolate originates from the cocoa (cacao) plant, but it is not 'chocolate.' According to the FDA, to be called 'chocolate' a product must contain chocolate liquor, which is what gives it the biter intense chocolate flavor (and color) to dark and milk chocolates.