9 Christmas Cake Recipe

And when it comes to decorating see our page on 10 ways to decorate a christmas cake.

9 christmas cake recipe. I baked the first one for christmas in 1963 when i found the recipe in the newspaper and my mother kept the tradition going into the 80s. Brush the sides and the top of the cake with the warm apricot jam. 10oz 280g butter marg 10oz 280g moist brown sugar 1 lemon 1 orange finely grated rind 1 tablespoon black treacle 6 beaten eggs with 2 tablespoons of brandy or sherry or rum. Try icing with almond paste for a more festive touch.

And then there s christmas pudding which confuses too christmas cake and fruitcake often refer to the same thing. However the american version of fruitcake often differs significantly from. A classic recipe for a fruity and slightly boozy christmas cake nigella lawson will be answering your christmas dessert questions live on our food blog on friday 9 december at 12pm. In our family no one thinks it s christmas without this red velvet cake recipe.

50 items magazine subscription save 44 and get a cookbook of your choice celebrate christmas with a rich moist fruitcake or perhaps a modern sponge based creation. This collection of our best recipes includes the hugely popular rich fruit cake by mary berry get ready for stir up sunday. Mary berry s rich traditional christmas cake recipe is filled to the brim with fruit as well as almonds brandy and treacle. A cake with lots of candied dried fruits in them a spicy sweet flavor profile and the presence of an alcohol such as rum.

No christmas is complete without a wonderful classic christmas cake. For the covering stand the cake upside down flat side uppermost on a cake board which is 5cm 2in larger than the size of the cake. The recipes for these two traditional holiday baked goods can be very similar. Discover 10 ways to decorate your christmas cake to turn your fruit cake into a festive showstopper.

This cake is a rich dark moist fruit cake very flavorful at christmas.