Baking cakes...

Thanks. My mum helped and I really enjoyed making it with her.
Also after the time invested thankfully it was well received!!

This looks incredible

Drop the beat!

It’s nearly that time of year when everyone starts making Christmas cakes.

I followed a Mary Berry one a couple of years ago. It was quite good but I wanted to see if anyone had any interested family recipes for Christmas cake they’d be prepared to share.

I have done this one for the last 10 years, it's great: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2011/nov/17/how-cook-perfect-christmas-cake

I usually make it at the end of October

Awesome thanks will check it out

I feed mine with sloe gin as I don't like brandy.

I’ve got some rum from Bermuda I was planning on using as there’s no much chance of me drinking it.

whisky is the way 🥃

The Marguerite Patten recipe.
My mother bakes xmas and wedding cakes for people and she’s used this recipe since the 70’s the book is now stained brown from splashes of butter/brown sugar mixture from the last 50 years. wrapped in foil and fed occasionally with booze and they last for years.
I was usually called in at the butter/brown sugar stage and got the spoon to lick as payment.

Should be easy to find it online.

I’ve got a lot of rum I won’t be drinking. Might as well throw it on a cake

My Dad had his own bakery until he retired a couple of years ago. We used to get called in to mix the cake with a giant spoon in a huge mixing bowl and make a wish. I never got that Ferrari F40.

He’s got dementia now and never wrote anything down. So sadly the recipes are long gone

Christmas cakes ahoy!

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Splendid! Fancy sharing your recipe?

On the subject of Christmas recipes, I’d like to share the Forman’s Christmas pudding recipe which was published in the Metro decades ago. Best home made pud I’ve ever had. Very light and very zesty. I’d say though, although it’s got a lot of alcohol in, it I wouldn’t leave it raw too long before cooking. Beginning of December seems to be a good time and douse it in a generous amount of brandy or rum 👍

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I fed mine with whisky last year as I couldn't find any sloes to make sloe gin with. Looks like the same again this year.

It’s the Marguerite Patten recipe discussed up thread.

Very easy to follow.

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