Christmas Cake on the Big Green Egg - Meat Smoke Fire

Ingredients

• 600g raisins
• 200g currants
• 100g dried sour cherries
• 250g mixed dried fruits – try prunes, apricots, apples, pears – finely chopped
• 400ml booze, plus extra to ‘feed’ the cake (brandy, sherry and rum all work well)
• 300g butter, at room temperature
• 200g dark brown sugar
• 1 lemon
• 4 eggs, at room temperature
• 2 tbsp treacle
• 300g plain flour
• ½ tsp ground ginger
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 150g ground almonds
• 150g whole almonds, chopped