Spiced Christmas cake - Recipes - Hairy Bikers

Ingredients

• 125g/4½oz raisins
• 125g/4½oz sultanas
• 100g/3½oz currants
• 200g/7oz glacé cherries, halved
• 100g/3½oz pre-soaked apricots, chopped
• 100g/3½oz dried pineapple, chopped
• 100g/3½oz candied peel, finely chopped
• 100g/3½oz cashew nuts, roughly chopped
• 1 lime, zest only
• 1 lemon, zest only
• ½ orange, zest only
• 100ml/3½fl oz white port or white rum
• 225g/8oz butter
• 225g/8oz golden caster sugar
• 175g/6oz plain flour
• 50g/1¾oz ground almonds
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp ground cardamom
• ½ tsp ground mace or grated nutmeg
• ½ tsp ground allspice
• ¼ tsp ground cloves
• pinch salt
• 4 free-range eggs
• ½ orange, juice only
• 1 tbsp rosewater or orange blossom water
• 900g/2lb marzipan
• 2 tbsp apricot jam
• 1 orange, preferably with a few leaves
• 2 tbsp icing sugar
• 2 free-range egg whites
• 3-4 longish sprigs rosemary (5-6cm/2-2½ in lengths)
• few citrus leaves
• 100g/3½oz caster sugar
• few crystalised rose petals
• cinnamon sticks
• star anise
• cloves
• nutmeg
• edible gold spray or edible gold dust