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We've made our Christmas cake, and it's in the oven

The house smells lovely, orangey and spicy and a bit brandyish
Don't tell the safety elf but it's last year's Mary Berry kit

Diflower wrote:We've made our Christmas cake, and it's in the oven

The house smells lovely, orangey and spicy and a bit brandyish
Don't tell the safety elf but it's last year's Mary Berry kit

The safety elf is drunk on last year's brandy.

I can well imagine that Di! We never bother with a Christmas Cake as I'd be the only one to eat it...and I'd eat the lot

I have got the Airwick Freshmatics set up with the Christmas scent though

The last couple of years I've bought a pretty M&S one, they always have them half price for a week or weekend, and they were lovely.
We got this kit about a week before Christmas, everywhere had the kits reduced and this was only £2 I think. I'd thought I'd make it for Easter or something. But general opinion was that it would keep just fine (the fruit is already in Brandy) so it was worth a go
At the same time we got a kit for spiced cupcakes with brandy butter icing, now they were utterly gorgeous although I made them half the size

sounds lovely diff
i always used to make xmas cake
made it in october and put sherry on it
then thick marzpan
and icing like a snow sceen
ha memories
iv used xmas cake mixes in the past as well
really good they are

It smells of cinnammon in here but only because the sprayed gold twigs I got for my big floor vase were sprayed with it

I love the smell of Christmas cake but not the taste

Mrs.e makes a trifle.Have to buy two tubs of glace cherries as she usually eats more than are put on the top of the trifle to decorate it.t

I make a trifle too, a massive one for Christmas Day and Boxing Day - my lot love it

I have made a cake, the first time in years. I am busy feeding it brandy on a regular basis at the moment. Its sure smelling good.

It's out of the oven and looks and smells delish
Mary Berry's notes say it doesn't need feeding as there's 'quite a lot!' of brandy already in it - but it might get just a small dose or so

For several years I've made that Black Forest trifle that Doris posted on the dm boards a good few years ago, it's expected now, I do it for the day Bb's mum and dad come so there are plenty of them to eat it