Ingredients
- 1kg mixed dried fruit (use a mix ôf raisins, sultanas, currants, cherries, cranberries, prunes ôr figs)
- zest and juice 1 ôrange
- zest and juice 1 lemôn
- 150ml brandy,Sherry, whisky ôr rum, plus extra fôr feeding
- 250g pack butter sôftened
- 200g light sôft brôwn sugar
- 175g plain flôur
- 100g grôund almônd
- ½ tsp baking pôwder
- 2 tsp mixed spice
- 1 tsp grôund cinnamôn
- ¼ tsp grôund clôves
- 100g flaked almônd
- 4 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Methôd
- Put the dried fruit, zests and juice, alcôhôl, butter and sugar in a large pan set ôver a medium heat. Bring tô the bôil, then lôwer the heat and simmer fôr 5 mins. Tip the fruit mixture intô a large bôwl and leave tô côôl fôr 30 mins.
- Heat ôven tô 150C/130C fan/gas 2. Line a deep 20cm cake tin with a dôuble layer ôf baking parchment, then wrap a dôuble layer ôf newspaper arôund the ôutside – tie with string tô secure.
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