175g butter, chopped
700g luxury mixed dried fruits
50g glacé cherries
2 tsp ground ginger
2 tbsp orange marmalade
100ml brandy or orange
3 large eggs , beaten
85g ground almonds
200g plain flour
½ tsp baking powder
1 tsp mixed spice
1 tsp cinnamon
Method:
Heat oven to 150C/130C fan
Place the butter, sugar, dried fruits, marmalade, ginger and brandy/orange juice into a large pan and put on the heat and slowly bring to the boil, stirring frequently to melt the butter.
Reduce the heat and bubble gently, uncovered for 10 mins, stirring every now and again to make sure the mixture doesn’t catch on the bottom of the pan. Set aside for 30 mins to cool.
Stir the nuts, eggs and ground almonds into the fruit, then sift in the flour, baking powder and spices. Stir everything together gently but thoroughly.
Spoon the cake mix into 12 deep muffin cases
Bake for 35-45 mins until golden and just firm to touch/ an inserted knife should come out clean.
Cool on a wire rack.
Once cooled top with buttercream. I added some gold shimmer spray for the festive touch and then because all I had in my cupboard were shimmer balls and chocolate stars and moons, I added these for decoration too!
They taste just like Christmas pudding!
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Mmmmmm….that sounds lovely. Yum yum
I’ll bet they taste gorgeous! Will be baking our Christmas cakes later this afternoon so hopefully will link up tonight.
oh dear, looks like I’ll have to make these too now! They look & sound great….
does a Gingerbread house count as a Christmas Cake???
x
the fruit is cooked and smells wonderful! So far so good, hope I don’t burn them!
These look great, what a fab idea. Def gonna give them a go x