Angela Nilsen's Christmas cake - Good Food Middle East

Ingredients

• 200g butter, softened to room temperature
• 200g dark muscovado sugar
• 200g plain flour
• 4 eggs, beaten
• 50g ground almonds
• 100ml sherry, sweet or dry, whatever you have in the cupboard
• 85g candied peel, roughly chopped (we used Sundora)
• 85g glacé cherries, roughly chopped
• 250g raisins
• 250g currants
• 100g pack pecans nuts, broken into big pieces
• finely grated zest 1 lemon
• 1½ tsp mixed spice
• 1½ tsp rosewater
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• ½ tsp baking powder