It's beginning to smell a lot like Christmas...

[Diflower]

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

[Ally]

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.

[JoM]

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

[Diflower]

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

[saundra]

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

[Kaz]

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

[cruiser2]

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

[Kaz]

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

[louise]

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.

[Diflower]

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