Bake: Chocolate & orange brownie cake and candied orange peel

Candied fruit, otherwise know as crystallised or glacé is fruit that has been boiled in a sugar syrup to help preserve and to create a sweet, aromatic and brightly coloured ingredient for baking.

Recipes for preserving fruit with sugar have existed since the 14th century.

The sugar prevents the build-up of micro-organisms that would soil the fruit so it allowed it to be carried on longer journeys.