But no one turns away a slosh ofcustard!
Usually Christmas Cakes need to be started the day before, with overnight soaking of dried fruit.
For gifting, makeMini Christmas Cakes.They look adorable when wrapped!
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As opposed to crumbly with a muffin-like texture.
I makemuffinsall year round, I dont want my Christmas Cake like that!
So if that sounds good to you, then I think youre really going to love this Christmas Cake!
Works 100% perfectly!
1.Soaked Dried Fruit
Heres what you need for the Soaked Dried Fruit.
Use any dried fruit you want as long as it weighs 855g / 30 oz in total.
Mixed peelis a store bought mix of dried, crystallised (ie sugared) lemon and orange peel.
Usually it comes pre chopped I like to chop it a bit finer.
I do not know how much fresh peel to substitute this for.
2.Christmas Cake Batter
And heres what you need for the cake batter part.
The cake has very little baking powder because its quite a dense cake.
Dark brown sugar makes the cake a rich dark brown colour.
Can sub with normal brown sugar will make cake lighter (also looks nice as fruit stands out!)
Molasses / golden syrup adds to the richness of flavour and colour of cake.
Butter is for flavour!
How to make Christmas Cake
And heres how the making part goes down.
So much faster and just as effective!
Other than that, theres nothing unusual about how this fruit cake is made.
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Here are some ideas but remember, its purely decorative.
Inedible decorations is FINE!!
Drippy white glaze use the recipe in thisLemon Cake with Drippy Glazebut skip the lemon in the glaze.
Too many bad wedding cake experiences!!
But nowadays, store bought fondant is actually much nicer than it was in the past.
The cake in the photos is the 2nd time in my life Ive used fondant.
So if I can do it, you’re free to do it too!
And lastly, youll be very happy to know this keeps for weeks and weeks!
3 months in the fridge, a year in the freezer.
Will yours last that long??!
Republished December 2020 no change to recipe, just tidied up some of the writing!
This combination of marzipan + fondant is a traditional way to decorate Christmas Cake.
Marzipan is for flavour and also to create a smooth surface for the fondant.
I used a lazy susan!
Use small pinches of surplus fondant if needed.
Then press in a silver ball (water makes it stick).
Life of Dozer
Too much Christmas cheer and not enough cake, according to him!
No Christmas Cake for Dozer.
Dried fruit is bad for dogs!
