Easter Fruit Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. # Place the fruits, spice, sugar, milk and bicarbonate of soda into a large pan
  2. # Bring to the boil then simmer for 5 minutes
  3. # Allow to cool to blood-heat
  4. # Sift the flower and salt and stir into mixture with the eggs
  5. # Turn into a greased double-lined 8in (20cm) cake tin
  6. # Smooth the surface and hollow out center slightly
  7. # Heat oven to 325F, Gas Mark 3, 170C and bake cake in the center for 45 minutes then at 300F, Gas Mark 2, 150C for about a further 50 minutes
  8. # To see if the cake is cooked a skewer pushed into the middle should come out clean
  9. # Cool the cake in its tin then transfer to a wire rack and remove greaseproof paper
  10. # Spread top of cake with jam
  11. # Using a little icing sifted icing sugar , lightly knead the icing, then roll out to fit just inside cake top
  12. # Trim round quarter inch (5mm) from the edge to allow for pink marzipan
  13. # Cut marzipan into three pieces. Colour first piece pink and knead thoroughly
  14. # Measure circumference of cake with string then roll pink marzipan by hand to the same length
  15. # Lift on to cake, pressing neatly to the white icing edge then trim ends and join
  16. # Colour second piece green, roll out to the same length. Roll out third piece likewise and twist them together
  17. # Lay twist around cake, just inside pink roll then trim ends and join
  18. # Tie a ribbon or fix a cake band around cake

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