christmas cake

Date Cake Serves 10-12 | Preparation & baking time 1 h 30 min Date Cake Date cakes are often baked in Finland at Christmas time. This recipe is an altered family recipe (my grandmother minced a pressed date bar and seasoned the cake with coffee or sour apple sauce. She used at least twice as...

We stopped the tradition of baking for friends when my Mum died. Before we moved I gave my loved collection of Alan Silverwood bake ware to one of the few local schools that had cooking classes. We bought a 15 cm spring form for the pork pie and both agreed although it was late we would start...

Christmas cake with clementines and cinnamon Contains dairy products, eggs, almonds and pistachios This is a drier cake with steamed clementines, intense cinnamon flavor, pistachios and almonds. You can baste the cake with e.g. rum, gin, Cointreau, Bailey’s, heavy cream or orange juice when...

Pandoro is a recent invention and could be found in the late 1800s on the table of the rich families of Verona. Star-shaped, no raisins nor candied fruits,, only icing sugar to be sprinkled on top.

Panettone - El Panetùn in milanese dialect - is a traditional Christmas/New Year's sweet bread loaf that originated in Milan and very much appreciated all over Italy by now. The traditional Italian Panettone is with candied fruit, orange and citron peel and raisins.

Do you make and decorate a cake for Christmas? Do you go traditional or something modern? I make fruit cakes every year and gift them to my parents, grandmother and a few friends. I’m not great at decorating so normally do something simple. I have a look at Pinterest and see if there’s...

I've got an emergency. I am about to cook my Christmas cake. Literally about to assemble all the parts, everything is weighed out, fruit has been soaked overnight after being picked over, sugar and marg creamed, eggs not yet cracked, flour and ground nuts mixed with spices, lemon rind and...

It's that time of year again. Time to make the Christmas cake. Only this year is a challenge as well because not only have I got to find my dedicated Christmas cake tin, some greaseproof paper but also half of the ingredients are going to be a challenge add all. Little things like dried...

As you may have guessed, my OH and I are leaving the country tomorrow. So last night at his parents' home, with all but one of the family present, a Christmas cake I made for Christmas 2014 was finally opened. Now I usually make this fruit cake around October time and leave it to mature, well...

When I was a kid I love having a fruit cake on Christmas day. It is not a complete celebration without it. What got me intrigued and addicted is that strange taste which I think could be because of the alcohol ingredient. I am planning to make one this Christmas but I am not quite sure if that...

We're not keen on traditional Christmas cake in our house, but rather than just having a chocolate cake (or something else you can have year-round) I bake this rich apple cake instead. Its dense and moist and I think it has a really Christmassy flavour. Ingredients 200g butter, softened plus...

It's a tradition in my family to have lots of fruitcakes on the table for Christmas and so the preparations have began..most of the fruits and nuts have already been purchased and this weekend the wines will be purchased for soaking the fruits in...it's lots of work to have them done to the...

OK, this is a once a year epic, you have been warned. It is best made around October half term and stored until Christmas. It is stunningly moist from the apple juice, but very heavy and simply wonderful for a hungry cyclist/mountaineer. We have omitted from the orginal recipe what we don't...

Yep, with an approaching half term, it's time to make the Christmas cake... marathon shopping trip, sitting picking over the fruit whilst watching TV (I hate crunching on stones) and then soaking the fruit overnight before getting up early to make sure everything is ready and prepared for...