Name: Easy Christmas Loaf Cake
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 90 min
Yield: 16, 16 slices
Cuisine: british
Ingredients: 500 g mixed dried fruit (ideally including mixed peel – see note); Juice of 1 orange; 100 ml sherry (or brandy / whisky / gin / rum - or use apple juice if you want this to be alcohol free); 100 ml boiling water; 150 g butter softened (plus extra for greasing); 150 g soft dark brown sugar ((or muscovado sugar)); 2 large eggs; 150 g self-raising flour ((US - self-rising flour)); 2 teaspoons mixed spice ((or pumpkin spice)); 1 teaspoons cinnamon; 200 g glacé cherries halved; 250 g marzipan ((I prefer the paler ‘natural’ colour… but the bright yellow stuff works too!)); 250 g white fondant icing; Icing sugar ((US - confectioner's sugar) (for rolling out the marzipan and fondant icing))

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Easy Christmas Loaf Cake

Nutrition Facts

Per serving · recipe makes 16 · 1h 30m total

Servings

Calories

20% of a 2,000 cal day

395KCAL

Protein

5g9% DV

% DAILY VALUE

Total Fat15g

20%

Saturated5g

27%

Unsaturated10g

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Total Carbs62g

22%

Fiber4g

13%

Total Sugars42g

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Starch16g

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Sodium207mg

% Daily Value is based on a 2,000 calorie day.

This easy Christmas loaf cake is made with candied fruit, spices, and sherry for a festive flavor without requiring overnight soaking. It's ready in 90 minutes and can be decorated and served the same day.

Ingredients

16 SERVINGS

500 gmixed dried fruit — mixed peel preferred
1orange — freshly squeezed
100 mlsherry — or brandy or whisky or gin or rum or apple juice
100 mlboiling water
150 gbutter — softened
150 gsoft dark brown sugar — or muscovado sugar
2large eggs
150 gself-raising flour
2 tspmixed spice — or pumpkin spice
1 tspcinnamon
200 gglacé cherries — halved
250 gmarzipan
250 gwhite fondant icing
Icing sugar (confectioner's sugar)

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Method

1h 30m total

Read the method on Easy Peasy FoodieEb Gargano’s original page

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