British christmas cake

British Christmas Cake Recipe: Discover the joy of a classic Christmas cake recipe – a delightful blend of fruits, spices, and buttery goodness. Perfect for the holiday season! 🎄🍰

Christmas cake is a traditional British fruit cake covered with marzipan and decorated in royal icing. This recipe can be made in advance.

Recipe video above. Here's my classic Christmas Cake converted into mini form! They look so great lined up on a platter to serve at a gathering, and are also ideal for gifting because they have a long shelf life. The cake is beautifully moist, rich with dried fruit, perfumed with Christmas spices. Dense, but soft pudding-like, not like an enjoyable brick as many store bought ones are.

Some classic recipes are steeped in history and tradition, and English Christmas Cake is one such food.

Looking for a traditional British Christmas cake recipe? This truly vintage family recipe dates back about 100 years - and it tastes amazing!

Mary Berry’s been making her traditional Christmas cake recipe for as long as Paul Hollywood’s been alive. She knows what she’s talking about. If you don't have the required tin size, go to her cake calculator to recalculate the ingredients and cooking time for your cake tin.

Nigel Slater Christmas Cake is made with butter, muscovado sugar, hazelnuts, dried fruits like prunes, apricots, and figs, vine fruits, brandy, and citrus zest. This easy Christmas cake recipe creates a delicious Christmas dessert that takes about 3 hours to prepare and can serve up to 12 people.

Mary Berry’s Christmas Apricot Cake is made with dried apricots, currants, sultanas, raisins, brandy, butter, light muscovado sugar, plain flour, eggs, glacé cherries, and orange zest. This traditional Christmas Apricot Cake recipe creates a delicious festive dessert that takes about 3 hours and 50 minutes to prepare and can serve up to 12 people.

Edd Kimber's light celebration cake is packed full of fruit and alcohol.

Making a Christmas loaf cake