Vegan Christmas Cake | Guest Recipes | Nigella's Recipes | Nigella Lawson

Ingredients

• 250 grams vegan butter or coconut oil, (plus extra for greasing)
• 175 grams soft light brown sugar
• finely grated zest of 2 oranges and juice of 1
• finely grated zest and juice of 1 lemon (reserve 1 tablespoon juice for the icing)
• 150 millilitres rum or brandy plus extra (optional) for feeding
• 875 grams mixed dried fruit of your choice, such as sultanas, raisins, currants, cranberries and chopped figs and apricots
• 100 grams candied peel (chopped)
• 175 grams plain flour
• 125 grams ground almonds
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• ¾ teaspoon ground ginger
• ½ teaspoon ground mace
• ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
• ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 225 grams apple purée
• 625 grams icing sugar (plus extra for dusting)
• 75 millilitres aquafaba
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 4 tablespoons apricot jam
• 500 grams vegan marzipan