Web christmas cake is a rich, dense fruit cake filled with warm baking spices and soaked fruit (typically soaked in sherry, brandy, or rum) including currants (zante currants or corinth raisins), sultanas (golden raisins), and raisins.

Christmas cake no marzipan. Beaufort scales, christmas, dragons, recipes. Christmas fruit cake, at that. This marzipan cake is the perfect example.

Last time the amazing sandra monger shared her chocolate fruit cake recipe to give us the perfect bake for your festive cake. In theory, we all know how to marzipan a christmas cake but, in practice, it can be a bit hit and miss, not to mention uneven. If the marzipan is not too dry you can add the icing.

The more traditional christmas fruit cake in that book also contains ground almonds for the same reason. The marzipan layer on a wedding or christmas cake helps. Web put the batter into the prepared baking pan.

Web you could store your cake in an airtight tin, in a cool dark place until 2 weeks before christmas and then check the cake. Are any of your christmas dessert recipes suitable for freezing? Christmas cakes are traditionally iced with royal icing.

If the marzipan is too dry, you might want to remove it and replace it, then ice the cake following week. Web a thin layer of butter icing can be used as a substitute for marzipan when using royal icing, provided you give the butter icing time to sit and become firmer. Web recipe video print pin recipe.

However, you could use chopped nuts instead or even leave the cake pops plain. Remove the cake from the oven and allow to cool completely. You can buy ready rolled icing, it is fab and easy to use, and has the same consistency as marzipan.