30/12/2025
β¨ Ultimate Luxury Christmas cake β¨
Love creating a new tradition, in this case baking the most luxurious, boozy Christmas cake possible to gift to my lovely Dad. β€οΈβ¨
Packed with all the traditional dried fruits and nuts, plus glacΓ© cherries and dried cranberries all thoroughly soaked in homemade sloe gin before baking, and infused with more sloe gin as it matured.
My favourite part of this cake though was the decoration, arranging my homemade glacΓ© orange slices, more glacΓ© cherries, and whole almonds, pecans and pistachios, all finished with a classic apricot glaze. It's just so lux and glossy!!
The final thing that makes this so special to me is that it harks back to my childhood when we received a not wholly dissimilar fruitcake every Christmas all the way from the USA and the Collin Street Bakery, Texas. πΊπΈ