Name: Italian Christmas Cake
Yield: 15
Ingredients: 100g raisins; 100g dried figs, roughly chopped; 200ml rum; 100g hazelnuts, toasted; 100g whole natural almonds, toasted; 375g dark chocolate; 50g candied orange peel, roughly chopped; 125g unsalted butter, softened; 100g honey; 125g brown sugar; 75g caster sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla paste; 3 large free-range eggs, room temperature; 1 lemon, zested; 125g plain flour; 2 tablespoons apricot jam and _ sheet edible gold leaf, to decorate

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