Chop the apricots finely. Rinse raisins and dab dry. Cream fat, sugar and vanilla sugar with the whisk of the hand mixer. Stir in the eggs one by one. Mix flour and baking powder and stir in portions. Add 100 ml mulled wine, apricots, raisins, lemon peel, candied lemon peel and candied orange peel and stir in. Pour the mixture into the greased and floured ring cake tin (2.8 litres capacity) and bake in the preheated oven (electric range: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for 50-60 minutes.
Take out and let cool down. Mix 5-6 tablespoons of mulled wine and icing sugar to a viscous icing, pour 1 tablespoon of icing into a piping bag. Pour the remaining icing over the cake with a spoon. Leave to dry for about 30 minutes. Knead the marzipan with 1 teaspoon of icing sugar, spread 1 teaspoon of icing sugar on the work surface and roll out the marzipan about 2 mm thick. Cut out stars and decorate with the icing from the piping bag. Decorate mulled wine cake with marzipan stars
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