a blue cake with white frosting and a santa sleigh decoration on top

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Last-minute Christmas cake recipe

5 ratings

· 4hr 0min

This moist fruit cake doesn't need to be fed so it's the perfect last-minute Christmas cake. The cake itself is very easy to make – the tricky part is the icing, but you can obviously decorate it however you please. For this recipe you will need a deep 25cm/10in round cake tin, an electric hand whisk or freestanding mixer, a cake smoother and a piping bag fitted with a plain nozzle.

Lesley Walls

Ingredients

Produce

• 100 g Cherries, dried

• 550 1/4 lb Dried fruit, mixed

• 100 g Figs, dried

• 1 435g tin Pineapple in, juice

Refrigerated

• 6 Eggs, free-range

Condiments

• 3 tbsp Agave syrup mixed with

• 85 g Almond butter

• 1 Food colouring pastes, yellow or orange

• 240 ml Treacle

Baking & Spices

• 1 tsp Almond extract

• 1 1/2 tsp Bicarbonate of soda

• 200 g Brown sugar, soft dark

• 50 g Cocoa powder

• 400 g Golden icing sugar

• 500 g Icing sugar

• 1 Navy blue gel food colouring

• 350 g Plain flour

• 200 g Ready-to-roll black fondant icing

• 125 g Royal icing sugar

• 3 tsp Spice, mixed

• 1 pinch Table salt

• 25 g Vegetable shortening

Oils & Vinegars

• 240 ml Almond oil

Dairy

• 200 g Butter, unsalted

• 1 splash Milk

Desserts

• 65 g Candy melts, blue or purple

• 250 g Marshmallows, mini white

Beer, Wine & Liquor

• 100 ml Sherry, sweet

Liquids

• 160 ml Water

Other

• white sprinkles (optional)

• silver edible glitter (optional)

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