Traditional Christmas cake recipe
A classic iced fruit cake with nuts and brandy
Source: Family Food by Netmums
Ingredients
- For the cake
- brandy
- medium orange, juiced & zested
- vanilla extract
- golden syrup
- mixed spice
- raisins
- dried cranberries
- prunes, roughly chopped
- glacé cherries, halved, rinsed, dried & finely chopped
- chopped candied peel
- blanched almonds, roughly chopped
- unsalted butter, at room temperature
- dark muscovado cane sugar
- self-raising flour
- large eggs, at room temperature, lightly beaten
- level tsp salt
- For feeding the cake
- For icing the cake
- smooth apricot jam
- water
- white marzipan
- Icing sugar
- white fondant icing
- Silver edible cake pearls
- Edible cake glue or icing sugar and water