Ingredients

The following ingredients have 4 Servings
  • 175 g butter or margarine (at room tempterature)
  • 175 g soft brown sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 175 g self-raising flour
  • 2 tsp mixed spice
  • 100 g sultanas
  • 150 g currants
  • 100 g raisins
  • 55 g chopped mixed peel
  • 2 tbsp apricot jam
  • 500 g marzipan

Instruction

  • Preheat the oven to 140C.
  • Cream together the butter and the sugar.
  • Beat in the eggs, one at a time.
  • Fold in the flour and then the dried fruit and mixed peel.
  • Take a third of the marzipan and roll it out into a circle the same size as the cake tin you are using.
  • Put half the mixture into a greased and lined 20cm cake tin. Put the circle of marzipan on it and then cover with the rest of the cake mixture.
  • Bake the cake for 90 minutes. It's ready when a skewer comes out almost clean.
  • Let the cake cool completely.
  • Heat the jam for 30 seconds in the microwave.   Brush the top of the cake with the melted jam.
  • Roll out half of the remaining marzipan and put it on top of the cake.   Roll the rest of the marzipan into 11 balls and put them on top of the cake.
  • Put the cake under the grill until the marzipan browns slightly.