Mini Christmas Puds
You Will Need:
• 175g plain flour
• 150g butter or margarine
• 150g Soft Brown Sugar
• ½ teaspoon mixed spice
• ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 grated lemon rind
• 1 tablespoon black treacle
• 3 large eggs
• 40g ground almonds (optional)
• 50gm blanched almonds (optional)
• 250g currants
• 150g sultanas
• 75g raisins
• 50g glaced cherries
• 50g mixed peel
• Grease a 7" tin and set oven at gas mark 1 or 140C.
• Cream butter and sugar.
• Add all dry ingredients and the black treacle.
• Mix in the eggs and flour. Put mixture into the greased tin.
• Cook for 3 hours on the middle shelf of the oven.
• You need to wash your hands now. Break off a piece of the fruit cake and roll and squeeze it into a ball using your hands.
• Keep going until you've used up all of your cake and made quite a few balls!
• Now make up some icing by mixing icing sugar and water. Add the water gradually so that the icing doesn't become too runny.
• Spoon a little icing onto the top of each of the balls of cake. Neaten and smooth with another (clean) spoon.
• Now you can decorate your mini Christmas puds with berries and holly. You can cut these from coloured marzipan. Look at that! Realistic, eh!
• If you don't like fruit cake you could use chocolate instead!
