Christmas Cake & Individual Cakes (merged)

angbrads

checkout www.cakebaker.co.uk for a video on how to make simple choir boys for the top of your xmas cake.

Jamtart your cake Ace!

chrisbethany

Hi Princess - it evaporates.

Chris

PurpleSkies

I've decided to make 2 xmas cakes. One with brandy and one without alcohol. Is there any kind of juice that I could feed the cake with? Would this work in the same kind of way at the alcohol?

angbrads

you can use pure orange like you would alcohol, for steeping your fruit.not sure about feeding it but it wouldn't keep as long. you could make the one wih brandy now, get feeding it and let it mature for a few weeks but the one without I'd leave til the week before you need it, or even less. its the brandy or whatever alcohol that preserves it. hth

princess_leia_3

Hi all, I have just iced my mini cakes, but how do you all wrap them for gifts? Do they need keeping in tin/or will a piece of card covered in foil and the cello wrapped be ok?

We have a spare so this will be the treat for tonight

RoguesPlace

Hi Everyone

I've read through this old thread and lots of people have suggested larger recipes divided up into smaller tins, but I'm trying to track down a recipe that is simply for one smaller cake.

I work for a specialist college and our deafblind students will be making little mini-hampers to take home for their families. Obviously each student wants to make their own cake though, and that gets very difficult when you are trying to divide up bigger recipe quantities and work out cooking times.

I know it's a year down the line from when the thread was started, but I'm still hopeful! Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Michelle