Hello all,
So many apologies for the last few delays of post. I've been away at my annual social insect conference at Royal Holloway University of London and with networking, listening too and giving talks my Craftmas post have already been neglected only a few days in!
But I am now back from the conference and winding down work for the holidays and will be posting like mad to get back into my 12 posts for Christmas related crafts.
So cheating a little bit with this post today. I did activity right at the beginning of the month but wanted to wait until nearer Christmas to share - but for the first time ever I have tried to make Christmas cake.
I must be the first to admit that I have never really been a big fan of Christmas cake, maybe I have just had a few bad ones, dry cake, too much marzipan and hard tasteless icing. However, I do like the idea of the tradition of making Christmas cake. So this year my friend Sam and I from work decided that we would have a go a making them. Lots of searching was done to find a new recipe that I thought sounded good and I stuck on this one "Enchanted forest Christmas cake" which can be found in the December 2013 issue of BBC Good Food magazine.
It sounded great, not as much of a traditional cake. Full of really interesting fruit, dried cranberries, figs and apricots. All soaked in orange liquor - yummy! The smell that surrounded my apartment was amazing so as long as it tastes as good as it smells it will be one amazing cake.
You can see the full recipe here.
There will be another post soon which will include icing and some much more interesting photos of putting the cake together!
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