Can I save my Xmas cake?

stargirl73

I thought I was being really good this year - made my Christmas cakes in September - as you're supposed to. And fed it regularly with copious amounts of brandy....

There-in lies the problem!

I think I've added far too much alcohol! I don't think it's undercooked as made several and everyone else's (who didn't over do it) are fine.

I marzipanned and iced it to schedule but when I've come to cut it up - the marzipan and the icing are sticky and the cake is more or less mush.

So I've learned a lesson - at great pains!:mad:

But is there anything I can do to dry it out abit? I thought about taking the covering off and putting it back in oven - what do you think?

I've left it out of it's airtight container for now but I would like to be able to serve it to folks.

Hope you can help me to redeem it!

Cheers

StarGirl

Anne_Marie_2

I did the same thing myself many years ago. Cake was sodden with booze when I brought it out to marzipan and ice it. So had to make another cake for that Christmas.
The brandy sodden cake, I double or triple wrapped in tinfoil, and put in cake tin and left until the next Christmas. Was amazed that it turned out just great, and then decorated it as normal. It was the best Christmas cake ever. Always said that I would do that again, but no one else eats Christmas cake apart from me, so not worth the bother of me making one.
You could possibly do the same with your cake and see what it's like for next Christmas?

Bambam

I've done exactly the same thing stargirl. Didn't marzipan or ice mine as we don't like it. When I unwrapped it the other day you could smell the brandy fumes a yard off. H is taking a bit to work each day and he said someone asked if anyone had brought booze into work today :eek:

It worked out to be quite an expensive Christmas cake with all the brandy I put in mine - certainly not the nicest I've ever done. Yah live and learn :rolleyes:

abbecer

I've only made my own cake once and did exactly the same thing. In the end we had it with brandy sauce instead of having xmas pud.

R Sorry no suggestions otherwise

Rebecca x

Avoriaz

If you really can’t eat it as a pudding, maybe you could remove the icing and marzipan, crumble up the brandy sodden cake, make another batch of cake mix without brandy and blend the two. Make two cakes from the resulting mixture and keep one for next Christmas.

play2day

Hi StarGirl, I'm no expert but cakes generally go dry as the age don't they? I made this mistake one year and served the results as a pudding with creme fraiche.....
I am sure if you don't get a definitive answer here that somebody on the Old Style board will know for sure.

MrsTinks

I'm going to move this to the OS board the folks there are probably best able to answer this one I think

Tine

Pink.

Hi stargirl,

I've merged both your threads together to keep all the replies in one thread.

Pink

stargirl73

Thanks everyone!

Glad I'm not the only one!

dawn060861

I would take off icing and marzipan and blitz the cake with some good vanilla icecream and re-freeze and you have Christmas cake ice cream.
I do this with leftover Christmas pudding it is yummy
Dawn

MATH

I would remove the icing and marzipan and heat the cake in the micro and serve hot with cream just like Christmas pudding. HTH