Christmas Fruitcake With Dried Apricots And Almonds

• 1 1/8 cups softened butter
• 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 large eggs
• 1 5/8 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 15/16 cup ground almonds
• 3 1/2 cups dried apricots
• 1 1/4 cups raisins sultana
• 100 orange peel gramscandied
• juice The zest and the, an orange
• juice The zest and the, a lemon
• 3 1/2 tablespoons butter
• 4 7/8 tablespoons corn syrup or honey
• 1 cup toasted almonds
• 9/16 cup sliced almonds toasted

1. Preheat oven to 140 degrees Celsius (285u0b0F).
2. In a medium bowl, beat butter, sugar and vanilla.
3. Add the eggs one by one, beating after each addition.
4. In a separate bowl sift the flour, baking powder, and ground almonds, mix well.
5. Add the sliced almonds.
6. Cut the dried apricots into small pieces and add to flour mixture.
7. Add raisins, chopped orange peel and lemon and orange zest and juice.
8. Add this mixture into the butter and beat until smooth.
9. Line a cake pan with parchment paper.
10. Transfer the batter to the cake pan and bake for 1 hour and 25 minutes.
11. 10 minutes before the end of baking time, remove cake from the oven and top with crumble topping.
12. To make the crumble topping, melt the butter in a saucepan, add the syrup and stir until thick.
13. Add toasted almonds.
14. Pour on top of cake.
15. Raise the temperature of the oven to 180 C to brown the topping, for 12 - 15 minutes.
16. Let it cool before unmolding on a wire rack.
17. Serve cold and dusted with icing sugar.

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Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Christmas-_Fruitcake_-with-Dried-Apricots-and-Almonds-782144 (may not work)