Easy homemade Christmas fruit cake recipe

Sift the flour and mix with the baking powder, set aside.

Place all the candied fruit, cherries and sultanas in a bowl. Set aside some for the final decoration.

Add a few spoonfuls of wheat flour to the bowl and wrap so that the fruit is covered in flour. Set aside.

Place the eggs, melted butter and sugar in a bowl and mix well with a whisk.

Now add the flour alternating with the milk and mixing constantly.

Add the orange essence and orange zest and continue mixing.

Strain the excess flour from the fruit and add it to the dough and mix carefully, place the dough in the mould, smooth the surface and beat a little to remove any air bubbles it may have.

Bake in the oven at 180ºc for 30 minutes. Then, remove from the mould and leave to cool.

Place the sugar in a bowl and add the milk spoonful by spoonful and mix until it is thick enough.

Start pouring it over the fruit cake and finish by decorating with the candied fruit that we had set aside, leave it to cool and that's it.