Christmas Cake

Christmas cake is a prime example of the type of British enriched bread or cake made over the centuries for celebrations – it’s packed with dried fruits, nuts and other flavours, including a number of spices. Christening cakes, wedding cakes and, at one time (before the advent of novelty cakes), birthday cakes all used to be made on the same basic principles.

This is one of those fruit cakes that holds such a moist richness it becomes very moreish, and, once you have tasted it, I th