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Quick query about making my own Christmas Cake
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i would but then i've used port, sherry and even on one occasion red wine!!!skintbint x
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I think it would be fine, I always use ginger wine in my fruit cakes instead of brandy and it makes them nice and moist with a gingery flavour! I guess this would be the same but would taste of cherries!0
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omg!!! i bet cherry brandy would be awesome
im thinking of making my first ever christmas cake this year ......... and now i know what kinda booze ill be using!!!!
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cherry brandy would be gorgeous! Last year we used the syrup from soem italian cherries mixed with sherry and it was delicious!!!!0
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Yay thanks for the replies and the affirmation that my idea was a good one
Despite that...I've still bought the little bottle of brandy for £5.99 because I realised that I like to have brandy in the cupboard for making Delia's sticky gingerbread puddings, especially as the weather is becoming distinctly autumnal. But even so, I'll definitely be using some cherry brandy in the cake and saving the ordinary stuff for the puddings! 0 -
I always use cherry brandy to feed my Christmas cake, makes it taste extra scrummy!Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soreen Kierkegaard 1854.0
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can you use anything else to feed your cake as i hate the taste of booze in food !!!!0
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can you use anything else to feed your cake as i hate the taste of booze in food !!!!
I think fruit juice would be fine, or maybe even very weak tea, but that would probably give it a bit of a tea taste (which I think might be quite nice!)
What about non alcoholic mulled wine, for those Christmassy flavours?0 -
I've just put my fruit to soak, its got brandy, sherry, taboo (vodka, wine, berry mix drink), looking gorgeous.
When do the tops up its be what ever comes to hand.
Ellieo - the one recipie I use gives you the option of using orange juice to soak the fruit in, and feed the cake. When I do that recipie, I leave some of the mixture so that I can make some small non-alcohol ones. x
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I have used cherry brandy before and it makes a lovely cakeBlessed are the cracked for they are the ones that let in the light
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