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I forgot to post this: I always make.my Christmas cake in the middle of September:

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It's a fun day. I wear my festive apron and listen to Christmas music. The cake is now stored under the stairs and will be fed with brandy every now and again.
 
Triduana said:
I forgot to post this: I always make.my Christmas cake in the middle of September:

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It's a fun day. I wear my festive apron and listen to Christmas music. The cake is now stored under the stairs and will be fed with brandy every now and again.
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That's exactly what my mother used to do! It was a wonderful time of the year - really Christmassy ! As children, we loved watching and helping. Her recipe was fabulous ! She made my wedding cake using that same recipe !
Cheers,
Patricia
 
Brilliant, Patricia! I've made it this way since I used to help my dad when I was a child. It's nice to have a festive day at the end of summer 🙂
I had thought of using the recipe for my wedding cake, but it was the decorating of it that put me off! So we're getting it made.
 
Triduana said:
I forgot to post this: I always make.my Christmas cake in the middle of September:

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It's a fun day. I wear my festive apron and listen to Christmas music. The cake is now stored under the stairs and will be fed with brandy every now and again.
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This looks gorgeous! Your recipe sounds intriguing - I've heard of this, never done one myself. Beautiful!
 
Thanks Terri! I've used the same recipe every year: lots of fruit (soaked in Madeira or a good sherry for a while beforehand); dark sugar, treacle, mixed spice and a few other things and covered in royal icing and silly decorations. I've also taken on the Yorkshire tradition of eating it with a good piece of Wensleydale cheese. They go really well together!
 
Donna, those look delicious but almost too cute to eat!

I said "almost," of course. ;) I'm sure they're all gone and were a huge hit!
 
Early yesterday, my DD asked me to make cinnamon rolls sometime soon, like I used to when she was a kid. So I got out my DGM's recipe and typed it out. It got a bit confusing at the end, but I think I have it figured out. She wrote it out in Jan. 1972. She finished her directions with "I hope directions are clear. Maybe like mud. huh. Good luck."
I grew up on her bread, rolls, and cinnamon buns, usually gooky buns. I will supervise DD as I can't do that work anymore, but it will be nice (or deadly) to have some of those.
Absolutely delicious, loaded with gluten and carbs.
 
ntl said:
How cute! What are the bodies and eyes?
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Thanks ntl and all for looking at my goofy spiders. The little girls next door giggled when I said I couldn't believe they would eat a spider. The bodies are malted milk balls aka Whoppers. The eyes came in a package that I found in the cake decorating aisle of the store. I think these were the smallest size. I saw other variations of these spider cookies on Pinterest where a chocolate covered peanut was used as a smaller body section but then there was no room for the eyes and I thought the eyes were the best part so I stuck with the Whopper version.
Best of luck with the cinnamon rolls, ntl! They are well worth the effort and a few extra carbs will be burned off to keep you warm at this time of year, right?
 
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