Candice's Two-tier Stollen Wreath recipe - The Great British Bake Off

Ingredients

• 100g soft dried dates
• 75g dried apple slices
• 500g strong white bread flour, plus extra for dusting
• 1 tsp salt
• 10g fast-action dried yeast
• 2 tsp golden caster sugar
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• 3cm piece of ginger root, peeled and grated
• 275ml whole milk
• 100g unsalted butter
• 1 large egg, beaten
• 250g ground almonds
• 125g golden caster sugar
• 125g icing sugar, plus extra for dusting
• 1 whole egg and 1 egg yolk
• 5–6 tsp amaretto
• ½ tsp natural almond extract
• 100g unsalted butter, softened
• 200g light soft brown sugar
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 100g pecans, toasted and chopped
• 50g chopped stem ginger
• 1 apple
• icing sugar, for dusting
• red and green food-colouring gels
• 1 date
• edible red glitter dust