I asked a question about it and got loads of replies saying "What is it?" - I take it you are mostly USA?
Basically it's a really rich, heavy fruit cake, made weeks before Christmas to give it time to mature. Some people poke holes in it and pour alcohol over it weekly.
It's then covered in thick marzipan and iced. It's a great English Tradition.
Don't you guys eat this at Christmas? Start the tradition. Now!!
2007-10-22 08:59:19 · 23 answers · asked by jo :) 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
Yep, that's definitely not an American tradition, although we do have fruitcake. The store-bought ones are just awful! They're dry and hard and we mostly use them for door stops. More of a cliche than anything. Maybe they're your left-over Christmas cakes from the previous year? = )
However, my dad makes one that you wrap in a cheesecloth soaked in brandy!!! He uses lots of nuts and some fruits as well. It's really, really, good but nothing at all like the store bought ones with that weird, green candied fruit. What IS that, anyway?
2007-10-22 09:20:06 · answer #1 · answered by pookiemct07 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christmas cake is a heavy fruit cake covered in marzipan and icing, decorated and eaten at Christmas
Dundee cake is a fruit and nut cake decorated with whole almonds and eaten at Christmas
Christmas pudding is a steamed heavy fruit cake/pudding eaten at christmas
2007-10-22 16:06:15 · answer #2 · answered by Tequila.... 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My mother has made the Christmas cake every year for all the family and all the neighbours for 40 years.
There is not a shop bought Christmas cake that looks and tastes as good as my mothers.She decorates them with little snow men and ties a red ribbon around them.She is 76 and has just wrote her list of lucky recipients this year.
2007-10-22 16:40:20 · answer #3 · answered by Niamh 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh yes I agree Christmas Cake is Tradition in the UK and Christmas pudding with Brandy Butter yum yum yum.
I think we should make it so that every American starts to have Christmas Cake. I will be there for Christmas and I will try and convert them!
2007-10-22 16:04:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've heard of Christmas cake before, but in a different context. There is a Japanese saying that compares single worman to left over Christmas cake. When I read the first line of your question, that was what I thought you were refering to
2007-10-22 16:06:53 · answer #5 · answered by xg6 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had some kind of cake one Christmas at a bf's house and they poured alcohol over it and lit it on fire, then we ate it. is that similar to Christmas cake? I'm from Canada.
2007-10-22 18:45:20 · answer #6 · answered by Jenn ♥Cadence Jade's mum♥ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have fruitcake in the States, but it's a joke. It's fairly disgusting and sold in slabs that look like bizarrely colored bricks, and it's full of glazed or jellied fruits. When I was a kid, my grandmother used to send us a fruitcake every christmas and it would mysteriously disappear sometime around New Year's, even though no one would touch the thing.
2007-10-22 16:08:41 · answer #7 · answered by Resident Heretic 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Christmas isn't christmas without the christmas cake and a nice glass of brandy
2007-10-22 16:03:33 · answer #8 · answered by Diehard 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Huzzah for christmas cake. Gonna make mine this weekend, cos I dont put booze in it so it doesnt need to mature too long. And my bloke is off the cake for a while cos of cholesterol so its all mine mwoaah ha ha *twirls moustache evilly*
2007-10-22 16:03:38 · answer #9 · answered by jeanimus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard of it, but I'm not a fruit cake fan or a marzipan fan.
2007-10-22 20:43:05 · answer #10 · answered by missyscove 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋