If you do not like lots of different dried fruits you can just put whatever you like totalling the same weight as the fruit in the recipe.
This is a quick and easy fruit cake which I often make:-
225g self raising flour
2.5 ml (1/2 teasp) ground mixed spice (optional)
100g castor sugar
400g dried fuit (any combination)
100 ml oil
100 ml milk
2 medium eggs
2.5 ml almond essence (optional)
Grease and line a 7in round cake time. Preheat oven to 160c.
Beat all ingredients together, spoon into tin, level top, sprinkle with demerrara sugar and bake for 1 hr 30 mins or until a skewer comes out clean.

If you do not like lots of different dried fruits you can just put whatever you like totalling the same weight as the fruit in the recipe.
This is a quick and easy fruit cake which I often make:-
225g self raising flour
2.5 ml (1/2 teasp) ground mixed spice (optional)
100g castor sugar
400g dried fuit (any combination)
100 ml oil
100 ml milk
2 medium eggs
2.5 ml almond essence (optional)
Grease and line a 7in round cake time. Preheat oven to 160c.
Beat all ingredients together, spoon into tin, level top, sprinkle with demerrara sugar and bake for 1 hr 30 mins or until a skewer comes out clean.

thanks very much little pud ,i will try it later today let you know how i get on

Cazza - I should have mentioned this; don't be tempted to eat it too quickly. While still warm it is inclined to be a bit stodgy, best leave till the next day then it is delish.
Jamie Oliver made a liquor soaking raisins, cranberries, orange juice & zest plus mixed spice in Vodka which we like at Christimas (we say it tastes like Christmas smells). I always use the soaked fruit in this cake.