Best-ever Christmas fruit cake

Best-ever Christmas fruit cake

hillstreetgrocer.com

Christmas cakes are full of decadence with fruits, butter, sugar, spice and plenty of booze featuring prominently in the list of ingredients. You can make your cake up to three months before...

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Ingredients

  • 250g currants
  • 250g sultanas
  • 100g dried figs, roughly chopped
  • 100g glacé cherries, cut in half
  • 100g mixed peel
  • 125ml whisky, plus extra to feed
  • 125g butter, softened
  • 125g muscovado sugar
  • 4 eggs, beaten
  • 130g plain flour
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp mixed spice
  • 50g ground almonds
  • Grated zest of 1 lemon
  • 50g whole almonds
  • 25g crystallised ginger, chopped

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