marzipan topped cake

If, like me, you love traditional rich fruit Christmas cake and marzipan but not the sweet sugar paste icing, our marzipan-topped Christmas cake is just what you need. Finished with a layer of the finest natural almond paste, gently toasted to a lovely golden brown - at last, icing-free heaven!

Ingredients:

Cake: vine fruits, butter, free range eggs, muscovado sugar, wheat flour, glace cherries, mixed peel, walnuts, ground almonds, Brazil nuts, crystallised ginger, Brandy, mixed spices, ground cloves. Marzipan: Sugar, almonds 33%, glucose,glycerol, sorbitol.