Christmas Cake is a traditional fruit cake with a rich, velvety texture that’s so full flavoured and moist it can be eaten plain. But no christmas cake design turns away a slosh of custard! Usually Christmas Cakes need to be started the day before, with overnight soaking of dried fruit. Terrific made on the day, keeps for ages, and it’s just as delicious made with or without alcohol.
I’m just not a fan of biting into giant chunks of orange rind. I make muffins all year round, I don’t want my Christmas Cake like that! Some cakes I tried to compare leading up to sharing this recipe were just far too dry. Quite dense but NOT brick like! Some Christmas Cake recipes are WAY too dense, and you feel like you’re cutting into a block of firm fudge. So if that sounds good to you, then I think you’re really going to love this Christmas Cake! What goes in Christmas Cake You need a LOT of dried fruit and very little cake batter ingredients!