Recipe for Christmas Cake

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Hi butterflylady,

I always make Delia's classic Christmas cake and it never fails. This thread has lots more recipes and suggestions that may help:

Recipe for Christmas Cake

And this thread is good for advice in the unlikely event that you run into problems as the expert bakers will usually be able to offer advice:

Quick query about making my own Christmas Cake

I'll add your thread to the main thread later to keep the recipes together.

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mo1_2

how much fruit do people put in there christmas cake,goin to make mine but recipe seems an awful lot

McKneff

Put in what the recipe says, yes, you do put a lot in, it always seems too much when you get it in the bowl but just wait till you taste it...............

I usually leave the peel out of mine, bt thats all.

Morrisons basic dried fruits are brilliant and half the price of other makes. I usually add up all the weiht in the recipe and just buy bags of the basic mixed fruit and put that in.

PixieDust

LOTS!!!!! I made mine during the week, and there is an aaawwfffuuull lot of fruit in it!!! And it will be goorrrgggeeeooouuussss once it's been fed a few times

Lippycow

I think there was about 2lb of fruit in mine..looks and smells delish:-)

zippychick

ive merged this with our christmas cake recipe thread so you can see what others do

Zip

**dancingbutterfly**

Hi ladies


We don't like christmas cake in our house We don't like all the dried fruit....at all sorry!

Does anyone have any suggestions of a 'Christmassy Cake' I could make? I can make a chocolate mud cake and sponges and banana cake but is there anything else I could try which could be more 'christmassy'? I can cover a cake in regal ice and decorate christmassy but stuck with recipe!

thank you

bajangal

**dancingbutterfly** wrote: »

Hi ladies


We don't like christmas cake in our house We don't like all the dried fruit....at all sorry!

Does anyone have any suggestions of a 'Christmassy Cake' I could make? I can make a chocolate mud cake and sponges and banana cake but is there anything else I could try which could be more 'christmassy'? I can cover a cake in regal ice and decorate christmassy but stuck with recipe!

thank you

Have you tried chopping the fruits up. Soak them overnight in sherry/rum/brandy or whatever alcohol. Then blitz them the next morning. When the cake is cooked you know the fruit is there, but you don't see them and you don't get a mouthful of raisins.

PixieDust

what about some kind of spicy tea loaf-type cake?

MrsE_2

Whose recipe Christmas cake did you make or are making?

I've made Delia's in Xmas 2009, I did a different one last year, had chocolate in it as well as the traditional recipe, can't remember who it was by (Nigella, Delia or maybe out of "Good to Know Recipes".

So whose recipe do you follow for the all important cake:D