Christmas bauble cake recipe | Good Food

Ingredients

• 225g unsalted butter softened, plus extra for greasing
• 225g light muscovado sugar
• 4 large eggs beaten
• 225g plain flour
• 2g 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
• 4 tbsp apricot jam warmed and sieved
• icing sugar sifted, for rolling out
• 750g natural marzipan
• cooled boiled water or colourless alcohol
• 750g white sugarpaste (fondant) icing
• small round cutters in different sizes (or you can use the ends of large piping nozzles)
• 200g icing sugar sifted, plus a little extra
• 1 large egg white
• assorted gel food colourings (I used purple, yellow, pink, green and black)
• coloured sugar balls (you can buy a mix of colours online)
• disposable piping bag
• about 120cm/48in matching ribbon