Fruit cake with lemon icing and candied oranges

Name: Fruit cake with lemon icing and candied oranges
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 19
Ingredients: 200 g Butter or margarine; 175 g fine brown sugar; 1 package Vanillin sugar; 1 pinch Salt; 1 TEASPOON Cinnamon; 7-10 Tbsp grated rind of 1 untreated lemon; 4 Eggs (size M); 150 g Flour; 150 g ground hazelnuts; 3 TSP Baking Powder; 100 g dried plums without stone; 1 package (100 g) Candied orange peel; 4 TABLESPOONS Lemon juice; 150 g Icing sugar; 4 candied orange slices; 2 TABLESPOONS roasted hazelnut leaves; 7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour

AUTHOR
Kate Willis

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
90 mins

TOTAL TIME
90 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 19

200 g Butter or margarine
175 g fine brown sugar
1 package Vanillin sugar
1 pinch Salt
1 TEASPOON Cinnamon
7-10 Tbsp grated rind of 1 untreated lemon
4 Eggs (size M)
150 g Flour
150 g ground hazelnuts
3 TSP Baking Powder
100 g dried plums without stone
1 package (100 g) Candied orange peel
4 TABLESPOONS Lemon juice
150 g Icing sugar
4 candied orange slices
2 TABLESPOONS roasted hazelnut leaves
7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour

Directions

1
Cream fat, sugar, vanillin sugar, salt, cinnamon and lemon peel. Stir in the eggs bit by bit. Mix flour, nuts and baking powder and stir into the fat-egg mixture. Chop the plums and fold into the dough with the candied orange peel. Grease a box form (30 cm long) and sprinkle with flour. Fill in the dough. Bake in a preheated oven (electric: 175 °C/ gas: level 2) for 60-70 minutes.
2
Cover the cake if it gets too dark. Remove the cake and let it rest in the pan for 10 minutes. Turn out onto a kitchen grid and let it cool down completely. Stir lemon juice and icing sugar until smooth and cover the cake with it. Halve the orange slices and decorate the fruit cake with them. Sprinkle with hazelnut leaves and let the icing dry completely
3
Preparation time approx. 1 1/2 hours (without waiting time). (with 18 slices)