I’m not organised enough to start a Christmas fruit cake the traditional way, by soaking the fruits for weeks, and then feeding the cake with rum for another few weeks before slicing into it. If you can relate, this recipe is for you! Made just a few days before Christmas by cooking the fruits in…
Christmas Cake
Chocolate Gingerbread Cake with Cream Cheese Molasses Frosting
This cake has all of the holiday flavours you could think of and is genuinely a treat! With fresh ginger and ground spices, molasses for more signature gingerbread flavour aaaaaand chocolate. Top that with a silky cream cheese frosting that also has a bit of molasses and you have yourself a very merry Christmas!
Date Rum & Orange Cake
Alternate name for this cake: The Christmas Cheat Cake. Because somehow, with a fraction of the time and ingredients, this emerged from the oven smelling like a loaded, boozy Christmas fruit cake. Maybe the rum-soaked dates have something to do with it? Or the copious amounts of fresh orange juice? Either way, this is a…
Whiskey Raisin Cake with Caramel Glaze
If it’s not wine, I won’t drink it, but I will eat it. Apparently pouring whiskey into everything is my favourite thing to do this Christmas. It began with having no rum at home, and since the flavours of both liquors are very similar in baked goods, it seemed like the most obvious thing to…
Gingerbread Cake with Boozy Apples
Christmas Day is less than a week away so I say bring out all the ginger you have and let’s go to town! We’re making gingerbread, dark and tender and moist and spiced and citrusy. And then we’re topping it all with apples cooked in butter, sugar and whiskey because it’s not a party without…