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Recipe for Christmas Cake

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  • Mokeyjen
    Mokeyjen Posts: 185 Forumite
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    That nightmare xmas cake is fab! How on earth did you leanr how to do things like that?! My cake is usually really with lots of silver balls stuck in it!!!

    I am well impressed!!!

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  • ravylesley
    ravylesley Posts: 1,105 Forumite
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    Love the nightmare before Christmas cake but thankfully my lot are happy with a few plastic ornaments plonked on a rough iced cake.It might not look wonderful but tastes yummy

    All this talk of Christmas cake has put me in the mood for making and baking now

    Lesleyxx
  • emweaver
    emweaver Posts: 8,419 Forumite
    does anyone have a recipe for a cake with no alcohol?
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  • La-Cara
    La-Cara Posts: 915 Forumite
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    emweaver wrote: »
    does anyone have a recipe for a cake with no alcohol?
    you can use the recipe that I posted at the top of page two, but soak the fruit in fruit juice instead of alcohol, and maybe make it nearer to Christmas so that it won't dry out much
  • emweaver
    emweaver Posts: 8,419 Forumite
    If i do use alchohol how long before xmas should i make it?
    Wins so far this year: Mum to be bath set, follow me Domino Dog, Vital baby feeding set, Spiderman goody bag, free pack of Kiplings cakes, £15 love to shop voucher, HTC Desire, Olive oil cooking spray, Original Source Strawberry Shower Gel, Garnier skin care hamper, Marc Jacobs fragrance.
  • La-Cara
    La-Cara Posts: 915 Forumite
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    emweaver wrote: »
    If i do use alchohol how long before xmas should i make it?
    I'm using alcohol and am making mine this week! I know some people leave it until the week before Christmas, but I prefer to make it earlier so the flavour has longer to develop.But if you don't use alcohol, I think you could still make it now, and again use fruit juice instead of alcohol to stop it drying out.
  • Lazy_Ike
    Lazy_Ike Posts: 185 Forumite
    emweaver wrote: »
    If i do use alchohol how long before xmas should i make it?
    October 2006 I got my act together for once, and made Christmas cakes at the time my SiL starts her baking. I made 3 - she made over 200! Annointed mine irregularly until about 2 weeks prior to Christmas, then marzipanned etc 2 cakes. Kept the 3rd cake, wrapped in greaseproof and foil, and stored in an airtight tin for later. Later turned out to be Christmas 07. Only in the run up to Christmas 07 did it again get an application of brandy. It was fine, moist and palatable, and all who helped consume it are still alive.
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  • moo2moo
    moo2moo Posts: 4,694 Forumite
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    For alcohol free cakes use tea instead alcohol or juice. The result is very tasty, but you do seem to need a bit more tea than the recipe calls for in alcohol (6 fl oz tea to every 12 oz of fruit seems about right).
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  • emay
    emay Posts: 506 Forumite
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    Mokeyjen wrote: »
    That nightmare xmas cake is fab! How on earth did you leanr how to do things like that?! My cake is usually really with lots of silver balls stuck in it!!!

    I am well impressed!!!

    My friend decorates them for me, she says she enjoys doing them as they're 'different', she's been doing classes at the local collage, but she went to art college too!
  • Ephemera
    Ephemera Posts: 1,604 Forumite
    Thanks 2 cats... we will be making that in the next couple of weeks!!!!!!!!!!

    All the best and will report back...

    Eph x
    If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got.



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