Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, Christmas Fruit cake. one of my favorites . This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really deliciou

The Ingredients needed to make Christmas Fruit cake:

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

Step to make Christmas Fruit cake:

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 dont use electric mixer for the
6. Now add the mixed fruits, almond powder. It might look a bit messy at this point but thats how it would be.
7. Pour into the pan. Top it with almond This will help for good appearance Incase we dont 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 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 edge
14. Then stick the edible stars
15. Keep in airtight cake container until ready to display.

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