Traditional Christmas Cake Recipes

Following on from the theme of A Child’s Christmas in Wales, here is a Christmas cake recipe that I have used for years. Incidentally, you can use this fruit cake recipe all through the year.

Christmas Cake Recipe

This is a fruit cake recipe that my family has used for wedding and Christmas cake for generations. If you are making the cake for Christmas, November is a good time to start the process. This gives you greater organisation time to make sugar craft decorations, feed the Christmas cake, marzipan and then ice it. If you are short on time, simply buy a good mixture of glace fruits or nuts and glaze with an apricot jam glaze as illustrated here. I actually like my cake made in early December as it adds to that Xmas feeling of bustle. I also only ever bake it when family are around the house, as the smell of it baking give everyone a thrill of, ‘ ooooh what is that wonderful Christmassy smell?’ You all know those smells of orange, spices, cinnamon and alcohol that recall times past. The modelling paste recipe given on another page also allows you plenty of time to get started on making sugarcraft decorations. Read the rest of this entry »