Cakes for your Christmas party

Fruitcakes are the traditional cakes used for Christmas cakes they are iced with marzipan and then sugar dough.

The cake is made from dried fruit - sultanas, raisins, apricots, dates, figs, prunes, red cherries and almonds - which are soaked with rum, before they are mixed into a butter cake mix made from brown sugar, eggs, butter, wholemeal flour and spices, after baking there is another generous amount of rum poured over to give that extra flavor. The miniature cakes on cake054 make the perfect present for that special person in your life.

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