Bluecup wrote:
Last night I went to my local supermarket and brought all the ingredients (except the butter grr..)
home* to bake me a Christmas cake. I even treated myself to a bottle of Curiosity Cola to drink while making it.
This will be the second year of me baking one. My girlfriend doesn't like fruit cake so I will have the whole thing to myself, so it will last me all Christmas and into April. I will be using Delia's recipe (found here
http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/the- ... 93,RC.html)
So the whole point of this thread is to see if anyone else bakes Christmas cakes and to inspire people to try it themselves. It really is a surprisingly easy thing to do.
Also I couldn't find an answer on the web for this. Is there any difference between a 33p bag of plain flour and a £1-something bag. It's plain flour, there can't be much difference surely.
* stealth edit
Delia's recipe is missing at least five types of alcohol from it, also a carrot or two - keeps it so lovely and moist, and the carrot 'disappears' into a Christmas cake, so you don't know it is there, but it adds a lovely new level of sweetness. We always added a glass of cola to our cakes as well. I'd copy my Nan's favourite christmas cake recipe, but I am far from London at the moment. Delia's cake looks like it might be too dry.
I guess everyone's nan makes
the best cake/Christmas pudding, though.