Christmas Cake – Donich Website https://www.donich.co.uk Argyll wildlife and nature as seen on the banks of the Donich Water Tue, 29 Nov 2016 20:49:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.4 Completed Vegan Cake https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2016/11/29/completed-vegan-cake/ https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2016/11/29/completed-vegan-cake/#respond Tue, 29 Nov 2016 20:49:26 +0000 http://www.donich.co.uk/?p=6556 I marzipan’d (is that a word?) and iced the vegan cake. Home made marzipan by default has egg in it, but the shop bought stuff doesn’t and neither does ready to roll white icing (which is good because of course the traditional royal icing has egg whites in it).

I had been going to collect some pinecones and berries from the garden and spray them gold, but rapidly running out of time so had to resort to an artificial spray from Amazon – looks quite nice I think though.

This evening I have been making the plums and brambles from the garden which I picked this autumn into preserves for some extra Christmas presents (and also to clear the freezer out a bit).

]]> https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2016/11/29/completed-vegan-cake/feed/ 0 Made my Christmas Cake today https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2016/11/21/made-my-christmas-cake-today/ https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2016/11/21/made-my-christmas-cake-today/#respond Mon, 21 Nov 2016 17:59:53 +0000 http://www.donich.co.uk/?p=6534 Afraid that after the dried up disaster that was last year’s cake, I’ve given up on Delia’s recipe and have tried Mary Berry’s. It actually seems to have come out better, though again I cooked it for only 3.5 hours rather than the 4 she recommended, and it still seems slightly over done. Still I have given it a good feed of brandy and it certainly smells nice so we will see.

My Dad is the Christmas Cake connoisseur, so he will need to let me know when he tastes it.

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