xmas cake tag
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Can i bake xmas cake in cardboard boxes?? Ok so i am a first timer to making xmas cake, i have my mums recipe, and i am wanting to make cakes as gifts. I have heard that you can make cardboard boxes and bake them in them. Is this true?? I think they would look really neat. |
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Juliewn, I made your xmas cake recipe... yesterday and it looks absolutely divine!It came out all golden and almost glazed looking, I almost didn't ice it cos it seemed a shame to cover it.It looks so moist I can't wait to try it. |
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Nuts on Xmas Cake I am going to put nuts and cherries on my Xmas Cake using the apricot jam and brandy.Can someone please tell me if you use roasted or unroasted nuts? |
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Icing not drying on Xmas cake ... help plz I've iced a Christmas cake with rtr icing and it's just not drying in this muggy damp weather! I did it a few days ago now and it's sitting on my dining table with a net cover over it, but it's just so shiny!! Any ideas on somewhere to put it to dry it ou... |
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Icing xmas cake I have only ever iced xmas cake with brandy buttercream, or using almond and white fondant. I see you can use buttercream, and then white fondant which i would like to give a go, as i dont like almond paste at all. Any tips i should know before i start? |
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Icing Xmas Cake Righto the almond icing (store bought) is on. Now how long do I need to leave it before I put brandy butter icing on top? Any hints much appreciated! |
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Substituting white sugar with brown in a Xmas cake Can I do this? I want the cake darker in colour. Would I use the same quantity and just substitute? |
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Xmas Cake - Has anyone got a yummy / easyxmas cake recipe. |
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Fluffy white xmas cake icing? last yr i tried some xmas cake & it had a fluffy white buttery icing on top ,remined me of my grandmas one she use to make ,does anyone hav a recipe for it ? thanks |
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Glaze for xmas cake HELP we have toped the cake with cherries and almonds but we need a glaze......hopefully not a sticky one |
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Almonds on xmas cake.dou put them on straight away or halfway though the cooking? |
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Jo Seager's Xmas cake recipe? Has anyone got this recipe?apparently very nice.Have searched her website but cannot find.Thanks. |
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Xmas Cake cooking time I've a lovely cake recipe by Lauraine Jacobs I've made for quite a few years now but I'm only making half this year (so 4 eggs instead of 8, 250g butter instead of 500g and 750g fruit instead of 1.5k) so it will still make a reasonable size cake but shoul... |
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Diabetic xmas cake... what brands of mixed fruit are suitable for diabetics any particular brands that you like? alot of them have sugar in them. |
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Very Dark Xmas cake - with ginger - recipe? I tasted the best rich fruit cake EVER a while ago - and would love to replicate it - the person who made it won't part with the recipe. ANYWAY it is very very dark - like the old fashioned rich fruit cake, but is different in that it has preserved ginger... |
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Xmas cake in a cup does anyone have a recipe for this please? |
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YOUR BEST XMAS CAKE RECIPE PLEASE Need to get onto this early this year - what's anyone's fav recipe? |
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Stress free Xmas cake I was given an Ernest Adams uniced xmas cake. So I put a thin spread of jam and then a layer of almond icing and a brandy butter icing on it. Its absolutely delicious and totally no stress involved. Ive usually cooked the cake but working right up til Chr... |
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Xmas cake with glazed top I know late to be making xmas cakes but I am doing them for our hospice as a gift and as a hopless person doing icing I thought I'd do glazed fruit and nuts on top.I have never done them before so any help would be great.I have a nice cake recipe so j... |
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Baking papersticking to Xmas cake Why does the baking paper stick to my Xmas cake. happened twice now and really frustrated. what am I doing wrong please! |
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Wooden xmas cake 'tins' Has anybody got thoughts/feelings/experience with these. would like to give one as a pressy but not if its only a one minute wonder.sorry if this subject has been broached before I havent seen it mentioned and thx in advance |
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Uses for unsuccess (sp) Xmas Cake I know I am late making the Xmas cake .please don't shoot me.anyway decied to use another recipe and it just isn't as I want it.can someone all ideas accept tell me what to use it in other than steamed pudding well covering in in custard :)Friut b... |
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?Dairy free xmas cake Is there such a recipe as would like to make one for one of the kids teachers.TIA |
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Whose started their xmas cake Nagging the wife to get going.Can't leave it too late. Won't have enough brandy in it |
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What Could I Use Instead-Xmas Cake help The recipe calls for Drambuie but I don't have enough.It says you could use whiskey but I don't have that either. What I do have is:- Kahlua (creame base like Drambuie) ; contreau, Jim Beam.Could I do a mix of some of these.I don't really want... |
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"" Help"" In Using Fan bake oven for Xmas Cake Am baking Christmas cake in new fan back oven for the first time.Old oven says 150deg c for 4 hours.Would appreciate temp, used for fan bake oven. |
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A LANGBEIN ALMOND XMAS CAKE TOPPING Looks yummy - but I'm wondering if I will need to freeze the cake if I want to keep it, or if I can keep it in a sealed container like any good fruit cake without icing. |
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The Official Xmas Cake Recipe Thread...... Overnite Gingerale Xmas Cake Soak 1 kg of Mixed Fruit (I use the pams stuff from paknsave) in 1/2 of a 1.5ltr bottle of gingerale overnite!, drain the next morning in a colander. Cake tin preparation: (most important but worth it). On the bottom you need ... |
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Xmas Cake Last year made a delicuious one with crushed pineapple,have mislaid it. Does anybody have the recipe/ Thank you. |
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Xmas cake question I don't want to ice my Xmas cake, can I just cover the top with shaved/sliced almonds instead before cooking! |
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Storing Pineapple Xmas Cake? The Holst website provides advice about how to store Pineapple Xmas Cake so it doesn't "sweat" or mould.Do you have any other special recommendations for storage so that the Pineapple Xmas Cake will last well between now and Xmas!Thanks in a... |
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High Grade flour for Xmas cake! Hi.I heard somewhere it's a good idea to use strong flour for fruit cakes because it helps stop the fruit from sinking.Is that true! |
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Want to make a super-easy super-moist Xmas Cake! This is a recipe from Janice Marriott, a columnist at NZ House & Garden magazine and makes a fabulous, well-flavoured and moist cake without any fuss! Quick Fabulous Xmas Cake 1kg mixed dried fruit(include prunes for a rich, dark colour) ½ cup li... |
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Easy, moist not too much fruit Xmas cake! I want to make an xmas cake this year, i have made them in the last.they have been dry and crumbly.I want a moist cake that has saltanas etc, but NO mixed peel, or cherrys or almonds,has someone got a recipe similar to this please!Also i like traditional ... |
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Xmas Cake with 4 ingredients????? lost my recipe, but knows it only has a few ingredients..iemixed fruit, orangejuice..but cant remember whatelse...This is for a guy who is on a very limited income who wants to make some forhis family.. |
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