Decorated Christmas Cake Recipe
Looking for ideas to decorate your Christmas Cake? Bursting with festive flavours of orange, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger, this classic Christmas cake recipe is the most magical bake of the year. Perfect for baking with the family, this simple Christmas cake can be decorated using any kind of icing, colouring or jams. With just a few cupboard staples, dried fruits, nuts and spices (including Schwartz Ground Nutmeg, Ground Ginger & Ground Cinnamon, you can whip up a fabulously festive Christmas cake for the whole family!
This recipe makes one 20.5cm (8") round cake.
Ingredients
450 gram (1 pounds) fondant icing
275 gram (10 ounce) butter, softened
225 gram (8 ounce) soft brown sugar
6 medium eggs, beaten
275 gram (10 ounce) plain flour, sifted
2 teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
2 teaspoon Ground Ginger
1 teaspoon Cinnamon Ground Powder 39g
1 teaspoon Mixed Spice
100 gram (4 ounce) ground almonds
350 gram (12 ounce) currants
350 gram (12 ounce) raisins
350 gram (12 ounce) sultanas
175 gram (6 ounce) cherries, chopped
175 gram (6 ounce) mixed peel, chopped
50 gram (2 ounce) almonds, roughly chopped
Zest and juice of 1 lemon
2 tablespoons brandy
2 tablespoons apricot jam
450 gram (1 pounds) marzipan
