Lazy Breadmaker Cake Recipe

This cake recipe just needs everything mixing together, no creaming of butter and sugar or anything. We don't have an oven at the moment so good to be able to make something in the breadmaker.
Maybe not the most stylish cake, but tasty nevertheless.

8 oz self raising flour (or in france 8 oz plain flour and teaspoon of baking powder)
4 oz caster sugar
3.5 oz oil (eg sunflower seed oil)
2 eggs
Splash of milk
teaspoon mixed spice
2 handfuls sultanas, you can add more or less as you wish (more makes a heavier but more moist cake)
Icing sugar and lemon or orange juice for icing

Mix everything except the milk in a bowl until smooth
Add a bit of milk and mix, mixture should be stiffish
Mix in the sultanas

Put in to pan of a breadmaker and run on 'bake only' setting (give it a go or read the instructions of your breadmaker - I find ours cooks it pretty slow so takes about 1 hr 10 mins). You don't need to put the mixer paddle in.

Make the icing by mixing icing sugar with a little bit of lemon and some water or orange juice or whatever fruit juice you feel will go with the cake. You want a reasonably running mixture but not too runny :) sorry precise description - it will taste good whatever you do.

From this basic cake you can make a variety of things eg
Banana cake - put in a mashed banana and less sulatanas
Ginger cake - Replace the caster sugar with dark brown sugar, add some ground ginger instead of mixed spice and add some chopped glaced or chrystalised ginger