Recipe for Christmas Cake

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Hi Janine,

Another vote for Delia's Christmas cake.

There are lots of recipes and recommendations on this thread:

Recipe for Christmas Cake

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inaminute

Hi Janine,

I made my first ever Christmas cake last year and used Delia's! I found the recipe very easy to follow and the end result was lovely.

As it was my first cake I brought ready rolled marzipan but made my own icing that I spiked with a pallet knife to make it look like snow (if you see what I mean).

I was only thinking today when to start making mine as you have to allow several weeks for the cake to breathe and soak up all the brandy you feed it!! :rolleyes:

Good luck

MummyYummy

Thanks for starting this thread!

Does anyone know of a Christmas cake recipe with not much alcohol in it? I'm not overally fussed on the taste of the alcohol in the usual Christmas cake but I would like to make my own this year.

Thanks in advance.

Janine2225

Thanks for all the replies!
I shall definitely being giving delias a go. I planned on doing one with and one without alcohol, one to take to my granparents on xmas day without the kids and one to have boxing day with them (daddys turn for xmas day this year!) so I'll be checking back here in a while to see how mummyyummys question is responded to
I also wanted to do a few mini ones to give as pressies, done in lakelands individual pork pie tins. Got my work cut out for me me thinks!

Miss-Moneypenny_7

I have made the good food one two xmas in a row and it was very very nice.

it is called a hot toddy cake but you can make it without alcohol, I can't stand alcohol in cake so I made it with orange juice as suggested in the recipe which was lush. its also quite moist instead of dry like some fruit cake can be.

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2988/hot-toddy-fruitcake

nikflo

delia gets my vote too, did her one last year, was first attempt and it was lovely!

good luck!

adsk

Yet another vote for Delia's. Make it asap so it has as much time as possible to mature before Christmas and so you have the opportunity to give it regular feedings of brandy.

floyd

Another vote for Delias, first time I had made one and it was beautiful and kept really well

nettles77

Does anyone have a link for the Delia one?

Gingernutmeg

I think this is the Delia one, it looks very familiar to the one I've made from her recipe. It's a lovely cake if you're after a traditional 'proper' Christmas cake.

I'm not a massive Christmas cake fan (not keen on mincemeat or Christmas pudding either, it's the bits) but last year I made Nigella's Chocolate Christmas cake as an experiment and it was lovely. Everyone who tried it loved it. It doesn't taste chocolately at all, just very dark and rich, and it kept beautifully moist. I'd definitely recommend it if you fancy trying something a bit different. I didn't bother with the coffee beans etc as decoration, I just marzipanned and iced it as normal and it was lovely.