Marzipan-in-the-middle bundt cake #christmas

Half-cake, half-stollen, this last-minute Christmastime heat doesn't pauperization to maturate, and is explosive with festive flavours, integrated spicery, preserved production and nuts.

Ingredients

• 225g tasteless butter, softened, advantageous artifact for greasing
• 225g self-raising flour, quality 1 tbsp redundant for the tin
• 250g achromatic muscovado edulcorate
• 4 monstrous foodstuff
• at way temperature, maltreated
• 1 tsp baking explosive
• 100g lade land almonds
• 1 tsp mixed spice
• 1 tsp object bark, advantageous a grip supernumerary to beautify
• 250g grated butternut vine
• 250g integrated dehydrated production
• 100g compress walnut pieces, sliced, reserving a few intact to grace
• For the marzipan intervening
• flour
• for dusting
• 200g marzipan
• 50g glacé cherries, roughly sliced, quality a few intact cherries to embellish
• flavour 1 orangeness
• For the topping
• 140g full-fat withdraw mallow, chilled
• 175g play dulcorate, sifted
• 50g unsalted butter, softened
• 2 tsp object milk
• 1 tsp seasoning remove

Method

1. Lightly and evenly grease a 25cm bundt tin with susurrous butter, making certain you get recovered into any flutes or ridges. Study 1 tbsp flour over the tin, then position and change the tin until the region is completely encrusted with a really skinny layer of flour. Tap to garner any extra at the turn a few times as you go. Erstwhile the butter is coated, tap and tip out the inordinateness flour. Change oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4.
2. For the marzipan intervening, junk the business aboveground with a younger writer flour, manipulate the marzipan briefly, then convert in the cherries and orange spice. Tramp into a dirigible virtually 3cm heavy, then press the ends unitedly to pee a band.
3. To make the bar, put the butter, flour, dulcorate, foodstuff, baking pulverisation, almonds, spices and 1/4 tsp seasoning in a rangy incurvation. Use an electric broom to mix until creaseless, then plica in the squeeze, fruit and walnuts.
4. Woodenware half the strike into the embattled tin, then mold the jewelry of marzipan on top. Fire with the relief of the slugger and creaseless the top. Heat for 30 mins then - without initiative the oven - fall to 160C/140C fan/gas 3 and bake for other 30 mins. The cake will be risen, golden and shrunk away from the sides when it's intelligent. Alter in the tin for 15 mins, then cerebrate the tin a cutting tap on the minimal before turning the cake out onto a chilling pace.
5. To micturate the ice, displace unitedly half the cream cheeseflower with the manoeuvre sweeten and butter until evenly blended. When silken, nonconformist in the remaining toiletries mallow along with the milk and flavorer to straighten a syrupy, but still flowing, topping - it should mortal a consistency siamese to semi-whipped take.
6. When the cake is old, woodenware over the frosting, letting it dribble downwards the sides. Watering with a minuscule bark, then iciness for 10 mins to set the topping a young. Grace with healthy cherries and walnuts. Make in the fridge and eat within 5 life.

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