Christmas Dessert

Certosino Fruit Cake Recipe

Name: Certosino Fruit Cake Recipe
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 16
Ingredients: 1 cup (150g) raisins; 2/3 cups (100g) dried apricots chopped; 100ml Maggie Beer Verjuice; 180g dark chocolate, roughly chopped; 130g candied mixed peel; 2 1/2 cups (380g) plain flour; 1 tbspn baking powder; 150g clear honey; 200g caster sugar; 150g unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing; 2 tspn ground cinnamon; 1 tspn fennel seeds, crushed finely; 300g eating apples peeled, cored and grated; 1/4 cup (60ml) Maggie Beer Extra Virgin Olive Oil; 1 tspn orange zest; 1/4 cup (60ml) marsala; 100g Seville Oranges in Spiced Verjuice Syrup|https://www.maggiebeer.com.au/pages/recipes/seville-oranges-in-spiced-verjuice-syrup, roughly chopped; 2/3 cups (100g) pine nuts; 1/3 cup (80g) Maggie Beer Apricot Jam; 1/4 cup candied cherries; Additional nuts and dried fruit, to decorate; Candied cumquats, optional, to serve