Christmas Cupcake

New Year’s holidays are approaching, including Christmas. And what a Christmas without a festive cake. And if you dream up, you can make such a wonderful Christmas cake – the recipe, in addition to traditional dried fruits, includes figs and dates.

Summary

Ingredients

• Prunes (each cut in half) – 1 cup
• Figs (dried, chopped) – 250 g
• Dried apricots (chopped) – 150 g
• Pitted dates – 250 g
• Walnut – 2 cups
• Sugar red cherries – 1 glass
• Sugar green cherries – 1 cup
• Pineapple wedges – 120 g
• Lemon (peeled and diced) – 0.5 cup
• Sugar – 1 glass
• Butter – 1 glass
• Flour – 2 cups
• Baking powder – 2 teaspoon.
• Salt – 1 teaspoon
• Vanilla sugar – 1 teaspoon
• Large eggs – 5 pcs.
• Brandy (optional) – 0.25 cup
• Apricot jam – 0.25 cup
• Dried fruits, nuts and candied fruits for decoration

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 165 degrees. Grease a baking dish with butter.
2. Prepare cake dough. In a large bowl, combine the first 9 ingredients. In another bowl, beat eggs and margarine with a mixer on low speed until fluffy. Increase speed to maximum, beat for about 2 minutes. Add flour, baking powder, salt, vanilla sugar and eggs. Reduce speed to minimum, beat for 1 minute.
3. Add the fruit mixture to the cake dough and mix well. Put the resulting mass in a prepared baking dish. Bake until tender, about 1 1/2 hours. Willingness to check with a wooden stick, piercing the middle of the cake with it (the stick should remain clean).
4. Remove the finished cake from the oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool. If using brandy, sprinkle it on the product. Leave the cake in the pan on a wire rack until it is completely cooled.
   Run the knife along the sides of the cake to make sure it comes out of the mold.
5. Remove the muffin from the mold, place on a serving platter and brush with 1/2 apricot jam. Sprinkle with dried fruits, candied fruits and nuts. Grease everything on top with the remaining jam. Decorate the Christmas cupcake as you wish.