Buttered rum Christmas cake recipe | Good Food

Ingredients

• 225g unsalted butter softened, plus extra for greasing
• 225g light muscovado sugar
• 4 large eggs beaten
• 225g plain flour
• 2 tsp ground mixed spice
• zest 1 small orange
• 85g pecans or walnuts, toasted, then roughly chopped
• 150ml cloudy apple juice
• 50g unsalted butter
• 2 tbsp maple syrup
• 5 tbsp dark rum
• 800g mixed dried fruit (the kind that includes mixed peel)
• 175g dried cranberries
• 2 tbsp dark rum
• 1 tbsp maple syrup