Fruit And Nut Christmas Cake Topping

The butter mix will start to cool and thicken.

Fruit and nut christmas cake topping.

Cut the dried apricots and peaches in half and place in a bowl with cherries almonds and brazil nuts. 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. Melt 2 tbsp of apricot jam and brush over the cake. 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.

I also used dried apricots walnuts prunes dried cherries cranberries sultanas and orange peel. Finally brush the beautifully arranged nuts and lots more glaze then store the cake in a tin or polythene box until it s needed. While it bakes bake the fruit and nut topping. 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.

Gently push the nuts and glace cherries on to the cake in any design you wish using the sticky jam as glue. Do you toast the nuts first. Finally heat a little more jam and brush over the top of the nuts and cherries to give a shiny finish. 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.

Mix in the fruit chopped nuts ground almonds orange zest and and orange juice. Make the hot toddy cake see link right in a loose bottom tin holding back about 2 tbsp of the mix for later. Spoon into the cake tin and smooth the top. Remove from the oven and cool.

Or you can go all out stack two cakes with buttercream and top with the fruit and nut crust. Leave the nuts and cherries to set on to the cake. 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. While the cake is in the oven make the fruit and nut topping.

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. Place whole almonds over the top. Mix all the nuts cherries and syrup into the remaining cake mixture see tip overleaf. Is it a special glaze or just sugar cornflour and water.

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. Place the apricot jam in a small pan with a splash of water and simmer on a low heat then remove from heat and leave to cool a little.