Not everything is about boats!! Christmas cake time

Jane Chambers Evans — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 02:06:09 +0000

I spent the afternoon in my kitchen today making Christmas cake, Handel’s Messiah playing full blast (Alan cowering in the basement to get away from Christmas music played before December – coward). As usual the cake was fun to make and the house was filled with that boozy Christmas cake smell that I love. I have included some pictures. Tomorrow the cake will be wrapped up and put away for a month then it will be the grand taste test. Hope you had a lovely day today too. Only a dusting of snow here but the temperature is supposed to plummet later in the week as it is elsewhere in Quebec. Winter is coming…

Cake pans all prepared

Candied fruit, 2 types of raisins soaked for 24hours in sherry and rum combo

Butter and sugars as first step

Base mixture full of spices

Add the fruit to the base

Into the oven for a low and slow bake

Finished product will be wrapped tomorrow and stored for a month before eating – if I can keep Alan away from it!! The soaking of the fruit for 24h in advance avoids the necessity of any soaking or basting during the month of wait

Jane and Alan's Excellent Adventure » Christmas cake

Not everything is about boats!! Christmas cake time