Christmas Cake with Fondant Recipe | Gourmet Traveller

Ingredients

• 120 gm each golden raisins and sultanas
• 80 gm each dried figs and currants, finely chopped
• 40 gm dried apricots, finely chopped
• 40 gm candied orange, finely chopped
• Juice and finely grated rind of 1 orange
• 120 ml golden rum or whisky, plus extra for drizzling
• 150 gm softened butter
• 140 gm brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• Scraped seeds of 1 vanilla bean
• 170 gm plain flour
• ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1 tsp each ground ginger and ground cinnamon
• ¼ tsp each ground cloves and finely grated nutmeg
• 500 gm fondant
• For dusting: pure icing sugar, sieved
• To serve: silver cachous or dragées (optional)