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Christmas cake nibbles

Ingredients
600 g mixed glacé fruit
250 ml water
190 ml sugar
250 g butter
5 ml ground nutmeg
5 ml ground cinnamon
5 ml bicarbonate of soda
3 eggs
65 ml brandy
250 ml self-raising flour
250 ml cake flour
gift box
tissue or wrapping paper
length of ribbon
ICING
250 ml icing sugar
60 ml lemon juice
100 g marzipan
green food colouring
red food colouring

Method:
Bring glacé fruit, water, sugar, butter, nutmeg and cinnamon to boil in a large saucepan. Reduce heat and simmer for 2-5 minutes. Add bicarb and stir well, then set aside to cool. Preheat oven to 170 ºC. Butter a 25 cm ring pan. Beat eggs and add to cooled mixture with brandy. Add flours and mix well. Transfer mixture to baking pan. Bake in centre of oven for 30 minutes. Reduce temperature to 100 ºC, place cake on bottom shelf and bake for a further 55 minutes. Turn out on a wire rack to cool. Break cake up and roll into small balls, about 2 cm in diameter. ICING Combine icing sugar and lemon juice well. Divide marzipan into 3. Leave one plain, and add a few drops of green colouring to one and a few drops of red colouring to the last (use a bowl and mix in colours well, using your hands). Make tiny balls from all three. Drizzle 5 ml (1 tsp) icing over each cake ball and decorate with a few of the marzipan balls. Line box with paper and pack in a layer of cakes. tie up with ribbon. Makes 30.

Recipe From : FAIRLADY December 06, 2000

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