Which Christmas cake shall I buy ?

morganlefay

We have just moved to a 1970's house with an 'original' kitchen - including the cooker. The oven effectively has two settings 'off' and 'incinerate'. So I cook in my Remoska and pressure cooker a lot and we will be having our Xmas turkey at my daughter's since trying to cook properly in the oven is just a waste of good ingredients.(We are saving up to have a kitchen makeover and NEW OVEN). I usually make Delia's Creole Xmas cake, but this year am not going to waste all those wonderful and expensive ingredients in this oven, so I shall have to buy a cake. Apart from Delia's cake which is just fruit and booze really, we aren't wild about fruit cake usually - can anyone recommend a 'bought' Christmas cake for us to have this year, preferably a not hideously expensive one ?

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wiorika

Maybe this year you should buy ice cream ,you can put fruit and booze in it cake is overrated

Edwardia

Lidl does good stollen, pandoro and panettone the latter two are great with a big dollop of creme fraiche.

kathie1101

I would think the Lidl ones that Edwardia mentioned would be rather good - most of their cake products usually are. I normally make my own, but have bought the Aldi one in the past (and I am this year too) and it is really nice. My mum buys it every year now and when they do the xmas cake surveys in the magazines & papers the Aldi one usually comes out top. Beats most if not all of the very pricey ones. If I remember correctly it is £6.99. They also do a few different stollens & panettone too - but think some of their christmas food range doesn't come in until the beginning of December. HTH