Frances Bissell’s Viennese Christmas Cake

Name: Frances Bissell’s Viennese Christmas Cake
Yield: Serves 10-12 (or fewer if you are greedy)
Ingredients: 125 g/4½ oz chopped almonds; 200-300 g/7-10½ oz dark chocolate (at least 70 per cent cocoa solids); 125 g/4½ oz ground almond; 1 tsp pure vanilla essence; milk; 3 tbsp sieved apricot jam; 400 g/14 oz white marzipan; 125 g/4½ oz raisins; 6 tbsp aged rum; 4 free range eggs, lightly beaten; 250 g/8½ oz unsalted butter; 275 g/9½ oz dark muscovado sugar; 325 g/11 oz self raising flour; pinch salt; 125 g/4½ oz dried cherries

Preparation info

Serves
10-12
(or fewer if you are greedy)

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Chocolate

By Sara Jayne Stanes

Published 1999

About

A Christmas cake with a difference. It is lighter than our traditional fruit cake but delicious nonetheless.

Ingredients

250 g/8½ oz unsalted butter
275 g/9½

Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Grease and line a 1 kilo/2 lb loaf tin. Preheat oven at 150°C/300°F/gas 2.

Cream