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The golden anniversary is one of the most celebrated wedding anniversaries. And rightly so! 50 years is a long time to be married - and my lovely in-laws had their 50th Wedding Anniversary last month. As we had a little family get together I thought it would nice to surprise with a cake.
Trying to decide on a cake was pretty easy, as they both do like fruit cakes, however my father in law would have wanted some marzipan but I did skip that step. I opted for a light fruit cake instead of a dense Christmas type fruit cake.
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With 50th year representing gold anniversary I tried to make gold from my fondant colours using ivory with a little yellow. I did sprinkle on some edible gold dust to add a bit of sparkle.
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Happy 50th Anniversary Margaret and Ernie - now waiting the 60th celebrations!!
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Ingredients
235g Margarine
235g light soft brown sugar
4 large eggs
335g Plain Flour
1 Tsp Baking Powder
3 tbsp milk
1 Tsp Vanilla
1 Small Orange
40g Dried Apricots
100g Glace Cherries
200g Mixed Fruit
160g Sultanas
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Beat the margarine and soft light brown sugar together until light and fluffy.
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Add the eggs, vanilla and milk into a jug and whisk together
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Pour the eggs slowly into the mixing while the mixture is on low/medium speed.
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Add the plain flour, baking powder to the batter.
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Keeping the mixer on slow speed, gently mix in the flour.
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Add orange zest and juice of the orange into the batter.
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Add chopped dried apricots, chopped cherries, mixed fruit and sultanas to the batter.
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Fold in the fruit using a spoon until all mixed.
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Into a greased and floured large spring form baking tin spoon the batter.
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Bake at 160c for at least 1 hour 30 minutes or until the cake is baked.
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Allow the cake to completely cool and then brush on orange jam.
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Ensure the cake is fully covered in the orange jam, as this will allow the fondant icing to stick to the cake.
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Rollout fondant icing and decorate the cake.
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