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Christmas Cake Recipes

To be honest, I don't always get it together to make a traditional Christmas cake (which needs a bit of time to stand and mellow to be as good as it can be) so I tend to rustle up either the Incredibly Easy Chocolate or Gorgeously Golden Fruit Cake (or both) at the last minute. But a traditionally iced and comfortingly decorative Christmas cake is a lovely thing, and if efficiency allows, should be embraced.
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Nigella Lawson
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Pie
Quiche
Nigella Lawson
French Recipes
Nigella Recipes
Apple And Almond Cake
The Epiphany
Paper Crown
Baking Basics
Galette Des Rois
Galette Des Rois
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake
Butter Chocolate Cake
Giant Cookies
Vegan Gingerbread
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake
Giant Cookie
Gingerbread Recipe
Gingerbread Cake
Luscious Vegan Gingerbread
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Fruit
Cake
Pastel
Baking
Tiramisu
Fruit Cake
Ethnic Recipes
Gorgeously Golden Fruit Cake
GORGEOUSLY GOLDEN FRUIT CAKE This is the fruity blonde sister to that brunette temptress, my chocolate fruit cake from Nigella Christmas. It delivers, as promised, a cake of apricot-pear-and-ginger goldenness and goodness, so squidgy and fresh-tasting, which comes perhaps not only from the amount of fruit in it, but also the lack of flour: this is a gluten-free treat for the greedy; fruit cake with the emphasis firmly on the first word.
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Yule Log Recipe
Chocolate Log
Smooth Icing
Log Cake
Yule Log
Chocolate Sponge
Swiss Roll
A Piece Of Cake
Yule Log
YULE LOG I know the recipe looks finicky, and I can’t promise it’s a doddle, but it works easily and you will soon find you are rolling chocolate logs without a care.
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Refrigerator Cake Recipes
Chestnut Cake
Refrigerator Cake
Nigella Lawson Recipes
Chestnut Recipes
Terry's Chocolate Orange
Rachel Ray
Läcker Mat
Icebox Cake
Chocolate Chestnut Refrigerator Cake
CHOCOLATE CHESTNUT REFRIGERATOR CAKE This is another of my maternal grandmother's recipes. I've changed it a bit, not least substituting dark rum for her juice and zest of an orange and a slug ot two of Grand Marnier. It's not that I didn't like her version, but it was just a bit too much like a homespun Terry's chocolate orange for comfort. You do as you please.
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Garden Food
Food Toys
Star Burst
Xmas Holidays
Christmas Cake
Everyday Essentials
How To Make Cake
Vanilla Cake
2nd Birthday
Smooth Hatbox Icing
SMOOTH HATBOX ICING I love a plain white-iced cake: smooth icing, wrapping the cake almost like a hatbox. I am happy to have this decorated, but I'd just as soon the decorations were also white. I cut out bits of leftover rolled-out icing, using my snowflake or star cookie cutter, and perhaps throw a few silver baubles around, too. But play as you wish: red and green roll-out icing can be used to exuberantly Christmassy effect.
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Natal
Traditional Christmas Cake Recipe
Nigella Lawson Christmas
Christmas Cake Recipe Traditional
Nigella Christmas
Festive Dinner Table
Traditional Christmas Cake
Christmas Cake Recipe
Easy-Action Christmas Cake
EASY-ACTION CHRISTMAS CAKE I just throw everything into a pan, let the heat from the stove send buttery rum and citrus juices permeating into the currants, sultanas and raisins, add flour and eggs, a can of chestnut purée to give grainy, Christmassy depth, bung the lot into a cake tin and let this stand in a low oven to produce a cake that is as dense, aromatic and fruity as you could hope for.
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Chocklet Cake
Minced Pie
Chocolate Spice Cake
Spiced Cake
Fruit Cake Recipe
Choc Cake
Nut Cake
Spicy Chocolate
Christmas-Spiced Chocolate Cake
CHRISTMAS-SPICED CHOCOLATE CAKE There are few more popular ways to end a dinner party than with a fallen chocolate cake – the cakes are so called because they are compact and flourless and, when cooling out of the oven, their rich centres drop and dip a little.
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Chocolate Fruit Cake
Candied Orange Peel
Cake Mixture
Chocolate Fruit
Ground Almonds
The Photograph
Cake Tins
Dried Fruit
Chocolate Fruit Cake
CHOCOLATE FRUIT CAKE This is the perfect cut-and-come again cake for any time of the year. It lasts for ages, but has the squidgy fabulousness of something so much less serviceable-sounding.
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Christmas Patisserie
Christmas Pudding Cake
Italian Sweets
Xmas Dinner
Festive Desserts
Dessert Aux Fruits
Italian Christmas
Gateaux Cake
Italian Christmas Pudding Cake
ITALIAN CHRISTMAS PUDDING CAKE This recipe is my own but at the same time a conflation of a couple of Italian Christmas must-haves: the glorious, fruit-studded panettone and crema di mascarpone, which is best described as tiramisu without the Savoiardi biscuit layer, and sometimes with pieces of chocolate stirred through the mascarpone mixture.
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Pakistan Recipes
Christmas Cake Recipes
Seasonal Treats
Vanilla Cake Recipe
Tree Cakes
Bundt Cake
Spruced-Up Vanilla Cake
SPRUCED-UP VANILLA CAKE This is a sleight of hand, or a trick of equipment rather than an act of brilliance. True, the cake does look incredibly complicated and seasonally impressive as it comes to the table, but that is all down to the shape of the tin.