Mini Christmas Cake Bites
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Recipe type: Baking
Author: The Cake Mistress
Prep time: 15 mins
Cook time: 30 mins
Total time: 45 mins
Serves: 24-36
Easy recipe for mini christmas cake bites
Ingredients
  • 1/3 cup Apple Juice
  • 375 g Mixed Fruit
  • 1/4 cup Dried Apricots, diced
  • 100 g Unsalted Butter, softened
  • 1/3 cup Brown Sugar, firmly packed
  • 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
  • 1 Large Egg
  • 100 g Slivered Almonds, chopped
  • 1/2 cup Self Raising Flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon Mixed/All Spice
  • 1/4 cup White Chocolate Bits
  • 150 g White Chocolate Melts
  • 100g Red Glace Cherries
  • Red and Green mini patty pans
  • 12-hole Mini muffin tin
Directions
  1. Heat apple juice in microwave for 1 minute. Pour hot juice over the mixed fruit and apricots and let them absorb it for 30 minutes. Stir occasionally. Strain the juice out of the fruit mixture when ready.
  2. Preheat the oven to 160 degrees Celsius. Line a 12-hole muffin tray with patty pans. Beat the butter, brown sugar and vanilla extract until creamy (the volume might be too small for your electric mixer). Beat in the egg until well combined. Stir in the fruit mixture, chopped almonds, flour, spice and white chocolate bits until evenly distributed. Drop teaspoons of the batter into mini muffin pans until filled to the top, pack the batter firmly in to each one. (These don't rise, so don't worry about overflow). Bake for 25 -30 minutes, until golden brown and the top is firm to touch.
  3. Allow cakes to cool slightly in the pan, then remove onto a wire rack. Melt the white chocolate melts in the microwave. Drizzle the tops of the cakes with melted chocolate. Place half of a glace cherry on the top.
Recipe by The Cake Mistress at https://thecakemistress.com/blog/freerecipes/mini-christmas-cake-bites/