No Bake Mini Christmas Cakes

• For the Cakes:
• 100 g sultanas
• 100 g raisins
• 25 g ground almonds
• 50 g chopped glace ginger
• 1 orange - grated rind
• 1 teaspoon mixed spice
• 2 teaspoons fresh orange juice, if needed
• To Decorate:
• 50 g almond marzipan
• 75 g ready to roll icing
• icing sugar for dusting
• 48 edible silver balls

1. Put all ingredients (except orange juice) in a food processor and chop finely
2. If the mix is a little dry you can add all/some of the orange juice
3. Divide mixture into 8, using your hands shape into small cakes, about 4 cm square
4. Dust the work surface lightly with icing sugar and roll the marzipan out to a 16 cm x 7.5 cm rectangle
5. Cut out eight starts using a 4 cm star cutter
6. Drape one star over each cake
7. Roll out the icing and do the same, but drape the icing in the opposite way to the marzipan on each cake
8. Decorate each icing star with six silver balls
9. Store cakes in an airtight box till needed.

sultanas, raisins, ground almonds, glace ginger, orange grated rind, mixed spice, orange juice, almond marzipan, ready, icing sugar

Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/no-bake-mini-christmas-cakes-51330801 (may not work)