Melt 2 tbsp of apricot jam and brush over the cake.
Fruit and nut christmas cake topping.
Spoon the mixture on top of the part cooked cake once it has had its 11 4 hours evenly distributing the mixture of nuts and cherries across the surface of the cake.
Melt the butter and golden syrup together then toss with the nuts dried fruit and seeds.
Glazed fruit and nut topping place brazil nuts and almonds on a baking tray and place in a preheated 200 c oven for approximately 5 minutes until the nuts are golden.
Using a pastry brush brush the top of the cake with jam and arrange your fruit on top starting with the bigger pieces dotting the smaller fruits and nuts in and around the gaps.
Spoon into the cake tin and smooth the top.
Gently push the nuts and glace cherries on to the cake in any design you wish using the sticky jam as glue.
3 sift the flour and spices together and gently mix into the cake mixture until well incorporated.
Place whole almonds over the top.
Brush a generous layer of apricot glaze onto the top of your christmas cake and then lay out the pattern with the dried fruit and nuts pressing down gently to stick into place.
Hi i know it s a bit desperate to avoid marking keen but i ve just made the christmas cake today and want to decorate the top with glazed fruit and nuts instead of royal icing.
Finally brush the beautifully arranged nuts and lots more glaze then store the cake in a tin or polythene box until it s needed.
Don t worry about the keeping quality of this glaze we have stored glazed cakes for three months and they were still in beautiful condition.
To decorate your christmas cake without marzipan you can either fill and ice a cake with the buttercream or you top the cake with the fruit and nut crust.
The butter mix will start to cool and thicken.
Mix in the fruit chopped nuts ground almonds orange zest and and orange juice.
Mix all the nuts cherries and syrup into the remaining cake mixture see tip overleaf.
Are there any domestic goddesses on here who know how this is done.
Remove from the oven and cool.
Do you toast the nuts first.
I also used dried apricots walnuts prunes dried cherries cranberries sultanas and orange peel.
While the cake is in the oven make the fruit and nut topping.
Cut the dried apricots and peaches in half and place in a bowl with cherries almonds and brazil nuts.
Finally heat a little more jam and brush over the top of the nuts and cherries to give a shiny finish.
While it bakes bake the fruit and nut topping.
Make the hot toddy cake see link right in a loose bottom tin holding back about 2 tbsp of the mix for later.
Is it a special glaze or just sugar cornflour and water.
