Mary Berrys fruit cake
Ingredients
- 400g/14oz currants
- 225g/8oz sultanas
- 225g/8oz raisins
- 175g/6oz glacé cherries, rinsed, dried and quartered
- 175g/6oz ready-to-eat dried apricots, snipped into pieces
- 75g/3oz mixed candied peel, finely chopped
- 4 tbsp brandy, plus extra for 'feeding' the cake
- 275g/10oz plain flour
- ½ tsp grated nutmeg
- ¾ tsp ground mixed spice
- 400g/14oz butter, softened
- 400g/14oz dark muscovado sugar
- 5 free-range eggs
- 65g/2½oz whole almonds, chopped (skins left on)
- 1 tbsp black treacle
- 1 unwaxed lemon, finely grated zest only
- 1 orange, finely grated zest only
- 50 whole blanched almonds
- 10 glacé cherries, rinsed, dried and halved
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