Guinness Cake

Here is a recipe to start off our St. Patrick's Day preparations:

1/2 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
3 eggs - beaten
2 1/4 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon apple pie spice
1 pinch salt
2/3 cup raisins - soaked in Guinness
1 1/3 cup golden raisins - soaked in Guinness
1/4 cup dried cherries - soaked in Guinness
8+ fluid ounces of Guinness - you need a little more to soak the dried fruit.

- Preheat the oven to 350 and grease a deep 8 inch cake pan
- Cream the butter and the sugar until the sugar dissolves; beat in the eggs.
- Mix in the flour, salt, apple pie spice and the soaked dried fruit.Stir in the Guinness.
- Pour batter into the pan and bake for approximately 2 hours until firm in the center.