No Bake Mini Christmas Cakes

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• 100 g sultanas
• 100 g raisins
• 25 g ground almonds
• 50 g chopped glace ginger
• 1 orange, rind of, grated
• 1 teaspoon mixed spice
• 2 teaspoons fresh orange juice, if needed
• 50 g almond marzipan
• 75 g ready to roll icing
• icing sugar, for dusting
• 48 dragees (edible silver balls, for decoration)

Recipe

• 1 all you do is put the ingredients for the cakes, except the orange juice, in a food processor and chop finely.
• 2 then add the orange juice, if the mixture is a little dry.
• 3 after that, divide the mixture into eight, and use your hands to shape them into small cakes, about 4cm square.
• 4 now dust the work surface lightly with icing sugar and roll the marzipan out to a 16cm x 7.5cm rectangle.
• 5 cut out eight stars using a 4 cm star cutter (make a template of one if you don't have a cutter).
• 6 drape one star over each cake.
• 7 then roll out the icing and do the same, but drape the icing in the opposite way to the marzipan on each cake.
• 8 decorate each icing star with six silver balls.
• 9 store the cakes in an airtight box til needed.