Strain the soaked fruits using strainer, keep aside.

Mix all dry ingredients including spice mix in a clean dry bowl.

Take a half cup of dry flour mixture and mix it to the soaked fruits.

To the dry ingredients mixture now add almond meal mix well and keep them aside.

Take another mixing bowl, add room temperature butter and brown sugar in it.

Beat them well till it turn soft and fluffy.

Add room temperature eggs one at a time to the butter mixture.

Now add caramel syrup and vanilla extract, orange juice(all the wet ingredients) to the batter, keep mixing.

Now gradually add dry ingredients in batches.

At one stage the batter looks like this shinny and fluffy.

Now add the fruit peels/zest and soaked fruits.

Now using spatula gently mix them from bottom to top.

In prepared pans drop the batter, level it and bake them in preheated oven at 325 F for first 1 hour and next 30 minutes at 300 F.

If needed you have to bake them at same 300 F till skewers comes out clean.

Once out from oven when they are still warm just apply fruits soaked liquid if any left.

Let them cool for hours or so on a wire rack to cool completely.