Maggie Cooper's Christmas Cake Recipe

It will soon be Stir It Up Sunday, the day when people traditionally make their Christmas cakes and puddings so that they have time to mature for Christmas.  I decided to take a jump on them by making my Christmas cake this Every year, I try to make a different Christmas cake recipe.  The results are mixed, but the unknown is part of the fun.  This year, I chose a recipe from Maggie Cooper that I found in The Toowoomba Chronicle, but which is also reproduced To make this Christmas cake, you first make a fruit mince, two cups of which is reserved for mince My fruit mince had been happily soaking in brandy for around three weeks, so I was confident that it was time to make the The recipe says to use a 20cm round…