Preheat the oven to 160C/325F/gas mark 3
Use a 23cm/9 inch cake tin.
Grease and line the cake tin. Cream the butter and sugar. Add the slightly warmed treacle. Add the sour cream and beat the mixture. Mix the flour and baking powder with the spices, dried fruit and almonds. Dissolve the bicarb. in the apple juice and gradually mix all the ingredients together. Spoon into the prepared tin and bake for two hours. Test with a warm knife. Leave to firm up in the tin for fifteen minutes before turning out on a wire rack to cool completely.
