Quick query about making my own Christmas Cake

jammy_dodger

i use a length of festive wrapping paper folded over lenthwise , sometimes i cut through the top inch or so to make it " frilly" or put some ribbon round tha paper .looks fine to me those purpose made frills are expensive

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jammy_dodger wrote: »

i use a length of festive wrapping paper folded over lenthwise , sometimes i cut through the top inch or so to make it " frilly" or put some ribbon round tha paper .looks fine to me those purpose made frills are expensive

written like a true moneysaver ,brilliant idea, I sliced an orange up and dried it on the radiator and sprayed with a bit of glitter to make hanging tree ornament that smelled nice .Fortnum and Mason wanted £8+ for half a dozen dried orange slices in a net bag two years ago to hang on the tree :eek:

feedumall

last year peacocks sold lovely velvet type ribbon to nice for parcels,we used it around our cakes it looked stunning and very expensive was about 2 pounds a reel i think

meritaten

I used 3inch wide 'velvet, gold edged ribbon' sold in three metre lengths for wrapping parcels. it cost £1.99 and there were three rolls of it in the pack! one plain one gold edged and one tartan. plenty to wrap around the cake and make a bow with! I THINK I got it from Wilkinsons or it may have been Aldi?
one year I forgot to get anything - so I wired spare gold and red baubles and stuck them in the side of the cake along with holly sprigs. that looked really pretty!

CurlyTop

Hi

Try Mr A**a, as he sells a happy birthday and congratulations one. Sometimes Home and Bargain sell Christmas cake deccies.

Good luck
:xmassmile

valk_scot

You can wrap anything round the side of a cake...ribbon, wrapping paper, strips of fancy fabric etc. I saw one picture where it had a sort of palisade of pieces cut from old Christmas cards round it too. Or you can use crepe paper, gathered up with hand or machine stitching, and fringed along the top.

On an aside one year DS and DD made dozens of paper snowflakes from cheap printer paper and we hung them from the ceiling using thread. They looked lovely. And I get them making paper chains from old magazines too...the pages with pictures of suggested gifts are especially effective and apt, lol.

mi_jardin

I have a piece of wide ribbon that I think came from my mum once upon a time, and I use that every year. I just wipe it down afterwards and tuck it away. You could probably get a metre for say a pound maximum from a fabric shop and it would last for years.

mummy2jack

I couldn't find one in the shops last yr either ....Whilst in S@insburys the other day I spotted them on the shelves so bought one cos I know if I left it there won't be any left...Only 50p so a bargain really!

zippychick

ive merged this with our christmas cake thread

Zip

daisiegg

Hi all

I am making my Christmas cake this weekend. I use Delia's classic recipe.

I have enough brandy left in the bottle from last year's cake to soak the fruit in before baking the cake, but then I will have no more to feed the cake (which I want to do...love a moist, boozy cake!)

However I do have a huge bottle of cherry brandy in the cupboard...

Do you think I could use cherry brandy to feed the cake? I like the taste of it myself, and the cake obviously has glace cherries in -would it work?

Even the smallest bottle of brandy I can find is £5.99 and it seems a lot on top of all the dried fruit (which doesn't work out cheap) if I could use something I already have in the cupboard!

Any thoughts? would it just make it really sickly?

Thanks!