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[hanging.on.in.there]

 ha ha I was up til 1am this morning waiting for my cake to seem cooked !
6 hours at 100C for an 8" square if you must know.
Seems paler and more bouncy than usual, hope its cooked OK ! I couldnt wait up any longer.
Followed my usual recipe but they come out a bit different every year x


 

[purplenanny]

Yes, that is very strange isn't it. I use the same tin and recipe and each year they are different!

[Ju Ju]

I have to make 3 this year. They often turn out a bit different. One of them has to be dairy and egg free. And I'm can't eat any of them!  Still they say they are delicious.

[purplenanny]

That seems a shame JuJu.
I made three last year - quite a task. But I do love the decorating bit - sparkly being my main thing!!
Only making one this year, for my Son and hopefully I will get to eat some!

[CLKD]

Is there something on then 

[honeybun]

I get a nice man from M&S to make mine for me 


Honeyb
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[Ju Ju]

Making a Christmas cake was the one useful thing I learnt to do in domestic science lessons at school. Been making them every year since. Much more useful than how to wash a hairbrush or iron a handkerchief or make puff pastry!

[CLKD]

Have 2 say that washing the hairbrush went by me 

I did make and ice a C.mas cake - once!  All that fine lacy work looked lovely but it's going to be cut  .  When we got engaged Mum made 2 fruit cakes and DH iced it ………. have photos somewhere 

[rosebud57]

I used to make everything. Xmas cake, choc log, Dundee cake, mince pies and sausage rolls.  Now I buy everything accept the mince pies (if I've got time).  I realise a few years ago that by the time xmas day arrived I was totally exhausted and it just was not worth it.  Wish I could go away for xmas but husband not keen.

[CLKD]

Grandma sent me to the butchers for mince one day - didn't know when I arrived there if she meant minced meat or the mince in the jar …… had to walk back to find out and can't remember the outcome, only the humiliation of walking into the butchers and not knowing what to ask for.   

She made her own mince meat so I ought to have known  …….. she made her puds yearly, we were always eating ones a year behind  - chocolate Yule log, we made one in Domestic Science - I prefer puds and log in mid-Summer, on the patio with a glass of white wine. 

Will you be white icing it and putting on little plastic figures, trees etc. or making a trellis icing?

[Joyce]

I used to make mine, from an M&S recipe book. Turned out great every year. Now I don't bother as only the two of us to eat it. I always end up getting all the marzipan & icing from hubby's piece as he only likes the fruit cake.  Now I just buy a small slab that does fine. Now mince pies, I do continue to make. So much nicer than shop bought ones.

[bramble]

I only like puff pastry mince pies so have to make them. Still swithering about making a cake this year.

[CLKD]

'swithering' ?  ……..

[Limpy]

I used to make and ice them - used a Delia Smith recipe, they were good  (probably helped by the amount of brandy used to feed them) That all stopped when diagnosed with MS oh and tried to emigrate to New Zealand.   

Last year I bought a home made one from a local lady who makes and sells them, it was wonderful.
Managed to get a belated order in this year, we hadn't seen the notices saying orders needed to be placed. Think it was when OH was having a meaningful relationship with the local A&E dept.

[Ju Ju]

I 'feed' my Christmas cakes with plenty of brandy.