Yes, this is a fruit cake, but it’s only October so I’m not suggesting it should be your Christmas Cake.  It won’t be long before it’s time to get the Christmas recipes out and make the pudding and cake, but think there’s a few more weeks before you need to do that .  Sadly these days I only make fruit cakes at Christmas, but really they’re an easy cake to make, they keep well and ingredients like the pineapple and carrot in this recipe add extra flavour.  Worth making all year round really……