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Food director Cassie has been creating recipes for BBC Good Food for over 10 years. She loves coming up with new and innovative family-friendly dishes as well as putting a fresh spin on comfort food favourites and classic bakes. @CassieCooks

Dark & stormy fruit cake

Make this Christmas cake a couple of months in advance, if you can, and feed it with rum to give it time to mature and develop deep flavour and texture. But, if you can’t face thinking about Christmas until a week or so before the big day, it will still be delicious.

SERVES 10-12 PREP 25 mins COOK 2 hr 10 mins EASY V

1kg mixed dried fruit or mixed dried fruit with mixed peel (we used150ml spiced rum, plus extra for feeding250g butter200g dark muscovado sugar1 orange, zested and juiced1 lemon, zested and juiced175g plain flour125g ground almonds½ tsp baking powder 2 tsp mixed spice 1 tsp ground cinnamon 1 tsp ground ginger 5 balls of stem ginger, chopped 5 medium eggs 1 tsp vanilla extract

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