Stollen Beer Bread

Makes 1 1lb Loaf

225g (1 pkt) My Secret Kitchen Original Beer Bread Mix
1 tsp cinnamon (or MSK Vanilla Pudding Spices if you still have some!)
125g marzipan
50g dried cherries or cranberries
150g mixed dried fruit
150ml ginger beer or lemonade
Flaked almonds and icing sugar to garnish

Preheat oven to 175C and grease a 1lb loaf pan. Roll out the marzipan evenly until it is a slice roughly the same

length and width as the tin.  In a large bowl, empty the Beer Bread Mix and Vanilla Pudding Spices and stir together.

Add the cherries, mixed dried fruit and mix together so the fruit is coated evenly in the bread mix. Make a well in the

centre of the dry ingredients and pour in the ginger beer or lemonade and quickly mix to combine.  Put 2/3 of the mix into the loaf pan and lay the slice of marzipan on top, add the remaining 1/3 of the mix and smooth over.  Bake for 45 - 50 mins.  Leave to cool

before dusting heavily with icing sugar and scatter with flaked almonds and a pinch of Vanilla Pudding Spices.