Snowflake Festive Fruit Cake
Preparation Time: 10 minutes | Cook Time: 25 minutes
Ingredients
For the Fruit Cake:
750 g dried fruit cake mix
200 g red glace cherries, halved
125 g pitted dates, coarsely chopped
100 g glace pineapple, coarsely chopped
250 ml brandy
250 ml butter or margarine, softened
250 ml (200 g) soft brown sugar
5 ml vanilla essence
5 ml caramel essence
30 ml smooth apricot jam
500 ml (280 g) Snowflake cake flour
1 ml salt
2 ml ground nutmeg
5 ml ground cinnamon
5 ml ground mixed spice
5 ml ground ginger
5 extra-large eggs
For the Icing:
1 quantity (430 g) marzipan
1 quantity (400 g) sugar paste icing
Method
- Mix the fruit cake mix, cherries, dates and pineapple with half the brandy and leave to soak overnight.
- Line a 20 cm square cake pan with two layers greaseproof paper and two layers brown paper. Grease well and set aside.
- Cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition until light and creamy. Add essences and jam.
- Sift flour, salt and spices together. Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture. Add fruit and mix well until all the fruit is covered. Spoon mixture into prepared pan.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 150 °C for 1 hour. Reduce oven temperature to 140 °C and continue baking for 1 ¼ hours.
- Icing: Cover cake with marzipan and sugar paste icing.
