Recipe for Christmas Cake

Nikkei

I Love Love Love christmas cake!!!!! The Delia Smith one is yummy and stays really moist and has worked every time I've made it, would definitely recommend it :-)

seraphina

I think you'll find there's as many favourite christmas cake recipes as there are old stylers! My advice would be to pick one you like the sound of and give it a go. For what it's worth I tend to use Delia's recipe for trad. Christmas cake - bulletproof!

floss2

I like Nigella's, it's in "Feast". My copy has pencil notes & blobs of ingredients on that page, as any good recipe should have

Pink.

Hi Zippy,

You haven't left it too late. Delia's Christmas cake is my favourite recipe, but you'll find lots more recommendations and advice on making Christmas cakes on this thread:

Recipe for Christmas Cake

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

touch*my*food*feel*myfork

I too recommend Delias christmas cake, this is the one i make too and i always do it the week after half term, ie in two weeks time.

zippybungle

Thanks for your replies
Looks like it will be a Delia Special then (found the recipe online and printed it off)
I like the sound of a Chocolate Christmas Cake too .

Zippy x

helyg

I make Delia's too, planning on making mine tomorrow.

laurel7172

I made the Christmas cake from Annie Bell's "Gorgeous cakes" last year. Quite a few people said it was the best they'd ever tasted. Everything I've made from that book has been fabulous.

kerleytops

mention of the C WORD IN October usually makes me cross yet here I am with the ingredients for my Delia cake all laid out and ready to go. Also bought 1 present yesterday, must be going soft in old age or spending too much time on here...

inaminute

Slightly off thread but I went to get my ingredients on Saturday and ended up visiting two different supermarkets to get everything! The baking section in both looked like a plague of locusts had visited, so there must have been a lot of cake baking going on this weekend!!

I made Delia's Christmas Cake yesterday, the house smelt fabulous for hours. I made it for the first time last year and found it very easy to make and it tasted lovely too!