Golden Honey Christmas Cake

Ingredients:

• 2/3 cup Orange Blossom Honey
• 75g packet dried fruit medley
• ½ cup raisins, chopped
• 1 1/2 cups of plain flour
• 250g chopped salted butter
• 1/4 cup caster sugar
• 2 tbsps Marmalade
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 cup self raising flour
• 1/4 tsps baking powder
• 2 tbps of Sherry or Brandy

• 1 ½ cups royal icing mix

• 4 tbsp cold water

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 150°C and line a round cake tin with baking paper.
2. Comine all fruit with 1/4 cup of plain flour to coat all fruit.
3. Beat the butter, honey, sugar and marmalade in a large bowl with an electric mixer until combined. Beat in the eggs one at a time.
4. Add combined sifted remaining plain flour, self-raising flour, baking soda with sherry/brandy. Stir until combined. Add to bowl with fruit mixture. Mix well. Spoon into prepared pan. Smooth over top.
5. Cook in oven (150C) for about 2 hours, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cover loosely with foil during cooking if top starts to over-brown. 
6. Over the coming weeks prick with skewers and drop in Sherry or Brandy.
7. To make icing, combine icing mixture and water in a small bowl withan electric mixer. Beat the mixture for about 2 minutes, drizzle on cake.
8. Add walnuts, cherries or any Christmas decororations as you want.