Video recipe! How to make a Christmas cake

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We've teamed up with Woman's Weekly's Cookery Editor, Sue McMahon, to bring you our first goodtoknow/Woman's Weekly step-by-step cake decorating video.

Start off by making a simple festive fruit cake. Next get all your ingredients and equipment ready and cook along with Sue to make this beautiful cake - it's easy!

Ingredients:
Fruit cake
Brandy
Apricot jam
Ready-made marzipan to cover a 20cm (8in) round cake
Ready-made sugar paste to cover a 20cm (8in) round cake
Ready-made green sugar paste for decorating (available from most good cake-decorating shops)
Water for sticking
Icing sugar for sprinkling

Equipment:
Plastic cake scraper
Cake crimpers (for decorating, and available from most good cake-decorating shops)
Ribbon cut to the length of your cake
Chopstick
Scissors

Check out our easy step-by-step cake decorating video

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By Sue McMahon

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