The Ultimate Classic Fruit Cake

• 375 g golden raisins
• 100 ml Grand Marnier
• 4 eggs
• 300 g plain flour
• 375 g unsalted butter
• 300 g dark brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons ground mixed spice
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 lemon, juice of
• 375 g dried apricots
• 375 g sultanas
• 200 g mixed peel
• 100 g red glace cherries
• 150 g walnut halves
• 150 g whole roasted hazelnuts
• Icing
• 1 (340 g) jar apricot jam
• 1 kg ready made marzipan
• 1 kg easy roll icing
• 250 g icing sugar
• 1 egg, separated
• edible food coloring

1. Place raisins in a bowl. Add enough grand Marnier/Cointreau to cover them. Cover bowl and leave for 24 hours.
2. Preheat oven to 150u0b0C.
3. In a large bowl, using a wooden spoon, cream together the butter and sugar.
4. Add the eggs one at a time. If mixture looks a bit like splitting, add a little flour.
5. Add sifted flour, mixed spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, lemon juice and Grand Marnier. Mix together.
6. Gently fold in soaked raisins, dried chopped apricots, sultanas, chopped peel, cherries, walnuts and hazelnuts.
7. Spoon the cake mix into 2 greased and lined 22cm spring form tins.
8. Bake cakes for 2 1/2 hours to 3 hours.
9. Remove and cool on wire rack. Once cool spray with more alcohol and wrap in cling film. Keep cakes in cool dry place until you ice/decorate them.
10. ICING: Gently heat jam until spreadable. Spread over top and edges of cake.
11. Roll out marzipan very thinly to the circumference of cake, also a strip around width of cake.
12. Place marzipan on cake-gently pinch strip around top and side to stick them together. Repeat this with the icing. Mix together icing sugar, egg white and a few drops of food colouring into a smooth paste. Put into icing bag and decorate as desired.

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Taken from www.food.com/recipe/the-ultimate-classic-fruit-cake-291068 (may not work)