Rich Christmas Cake

Christmas cake is a type of  fruitcake served at Christmas time .
A Christmas cake may be light or dark, crumbly-moist to sticky-wet, spongy to heavy, leavened or unleavened, shaped round, square or oblong as whole cakes, with marzipan, icing, glazing, dusting with icing sugar, or plain.
This again comes straight from my mom's kitchen. She prepares it every year for christmas.After my marriage i tried it on my own for the first and it turned out just as good.
It is a light and crumbly cake,particularly good for people who don't like very moist cakes.
Ingredients:

•     500gms all purpose flour
•      500gms Sugar
•      500gms Butter
•     12 Eggs
•      1 tsp. cinnamon
•      1 tsp. mixed spice
•      ½ tsp. salt
•      4  tbsp candied peel
•      4 tbsp cherries
•     4 tbsp sultans
•       4tbsp raisins
•      2 cups. Dried fruit
•      4 tbsp blanched almonds
•      4 tbsp Rum
•      Finely grated 1 lemon

Method:

• Sieve together all the dry ingredients.
• Mix the peel, fruit, cherries, chopped almonds and lemon rind
• Whisk the eggs and Rum together
• Cool the cake in the tin,decorate it with almonds and dry fruits and then store in an airtight container.
• Add the flour and egg mixtures alternately
• Stir in the fruit mixture.
• Put into an baking tin, lined with greaseproof paper round the sides and at the bottom.Put in the middle of a hot oven. 
• Bake till skewer inserted comes out clean 
• Cool the cake in the tin,decorate it with almonds and dry fruits and then store in an airtight container.