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Christmas Fruit cake

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Christmas Fruit cake -

Christmas Fruit cake

You can have Christmas Fruit cake using 15 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients cook Christmas Fruit cake

  1. You need 220 Gram All purpose flour.
  2. Prepare 220 Gram Muscavado dark sugar.
  3. It's 220 Gram Butter.
  4. Prepare 800 Gram Mixed fruits and raisins.
  5. You need 50 gram almond powder.
  6. Prepare 1 tbsp treacle.
  7. It's 3 large eggs.
  8. You need 1 pack Marzipan ready to roll.
  9. You need 1 pack ready to roll fondant.
  10. It's 1 pack decorating stars edible.
  11. Prepare 85 ml Brandy.
  12. Prepare 1 lemon zest.
  13. Prepare 1 orange zest.
  14. It's Few almonds as topping.
  15. You need Apricot jam.

Christmas Fruit cake step by step

  1. In a large bowl with mixed dried fruit, Add the brandy and give a good mix. Then cover with clingfilm and soak for 3 nights in the fridge..
  2. On the fourth day(after 3 nights of soaking mixed fruits in brandy), Grease and line a 20cm cake tin, preferably with a removable base..
  3. Preheat the oven to 150°C..
  4. With an electric mixer, beat the butter with the sugar and black treacle until paler and fluffy. Gradually add the eggs, beating each one at a time..
  5. Add the flour and mix with spatula. I don't use electric mixer for the flour..
  6. Now add the mixed fruits, almond powder. It might look a bit messy at this point but that's how it would be..
  7. Pour into the pan. Top it with almonds. This will help for good appearance Incase we don't have time to decorate later!.
  8. Cover the pan with parchment paper to overturn the top layer. Keep the pan in oven for 3 hours at 140 *C.
  9. Switch off oven. Allow cake to cool down..
  10. Keep in airtight container..
  11. On the day of decorating, knead the marzipan and roll it over. I did according to Waitrose video on YouTube..
  12. You need 2 TSP apricot jam a bit heated to apply on cake so that marzipan sticks to it..
  13. 12 hours after marzipan dried, I applied the fondant icing similar to how marzipan was kneaded, rolled and stuck on cake. Cut out the edges..
  14. Then stick the edible stars.
  15. Keep in airtight cake container until ready to display..

Christmas Fruit cake - Thank you and good luck