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Our Christmas Cakes

Alan Cole — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 15:35:00 +0000

Anna said it would be nice to se all of our Christmas cakes that we have made, so here they are. Click to enlarge. Which is your favourite?

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A Santa Christmas Cake

Alan Cole — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 15:15:39 +0000

We have only five days to go, and a son who is slightly less enthusiastic about cake decorating than he used to be. A simple, not too time consuming design was therefore the order of the day for this years Christmas Cake. To be fair, I think that’s actually the secret to success when it...

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Christmas Cake Decorating

Alan Cole — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 08:07:00 +0000

Saturday afternoon was spent decorating our Christmas Cake. As usual, the cake was baked weeks ago and has been being fed with brandy at regular intervals since. I then covered it in a double layer of marzipan last weekend. A double layer because I like marzipan and I’m the only one who eats the cake!...

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Christmas Cake Decorating

Alan Cole — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 16:41:04 +0000

Having baked the Christmas cake quite a few weeks ago, it was finally time to start decorating it today. I used a different recipe for the cake this year and had been feeding it with brandy for about 6 weeks. It seemed a little more moist than cakes of previous years but was looking good....

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65th Birthday Cake

Alan Cole — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 19:40:14 +0000

It was my Mum’s 65th birthday the other day so we baked her a nice chocolate celebration cake. It’s a birthday cake recipe that we got from the Volcanic Kitchens cookbook that we brought back from New Zealand. It makes a lovely chocolate cake that we use for all sorts of occasions. It wouldn’t be a...

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Honey Show and Honey Cake Competition

Alan Cole — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 06:33:00 +0000

With Anna at band and Morgan surgically attached to his computer it was just me attending the honey show this year. We didn’t really have anything to exhibit though as we didn’t get any honey this year. I did submit a few photos to the photo competition and of course baked the honey cake. There were loads...

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Giant Jaffa Cake Cake

Alan Cole — Tue, 16 May 2017 10:46:06 +0000

While Anna was out all day on Sunday I decided to bake a giant jaffa cake cake. It’s a Jamie Oliver recipe from his Jamie’s Comfort Food book. We haven’t actually cooked many recipe from here yet so it was time to change that. Essentially you make a very rich pancake batter that not only...

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Giant Stollen Baking for Christmas

Alan Cole — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 06:31:02 +0000

I had quite a bit of marzipan left over after baking and decorating our Christmas cake this year. That’s nothing unusual as I did have more than 1kg of the delicious yellow almond paste and with only one cake to cover this year I didn’t use it all. The leftover marzipan would usually sit there, gradually...

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Christmas Cake Decorating

Alan Cole — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 08:17:46 +0000

Christmas is creeping up on us faster than I would like and there’s still so much to do. I have this week off and had hoped to get everything ready early in the week so that I could then spend some days relaxing and doing things with Morgan before Christmas. The list of things to...

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This Year’s Christmas Cake

Alan Cole — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 12:40:28 +0000

I was back from our activity weekend by mid afternoon on Sunday. I therefore had plenty of time to unpack, was things out and then do some chores. Tidying the house a little, cleaning out the fishtank and then as Anna cooked dinner I made a start on this years Christmas Cake. Yep, it’s that...

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