Christmas Cake Recipe
You'll need the following:

1 cup of water
1 cup of sugar
4 large brown eggs
2 cups of dried fruit
1 teaspoon of salt
1 cup of brown sugar
Lemon juice
Nuts
1 bottle of whisky

Sample the whisky to check for quality. Take a large bowl. Check the whisky again. To be sure it's the
highest quality, pour one level cup and drink. Repeat. Turn on the electric mixer, beat one cup of butter
in a large fluffy bowl. Add one teaspoon of sugar and beat again. Make sure the whisky is still OK.
Cry another tup. Tune up the mixer. Beat two leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried
fruit. Mix on the turner. If the fired druit gets stuck in the beaterers, pry it goose with a drewscriver.
Sample the whisky to check for tonsisticity. Next, sift two cups of salt. Or something. Who cares?
Check the whisky. Now sift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add one table. Spoon the sugar or something. Whatever you can find. Grease the oven. Turn the cake tin to 350 degrees. Don't forget
to beat off the turner. Throw the bowl out of the window. Check the whisky again and go to bed.

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nice!

Hic, alternatively you could check out the recipes on the BBC food website.

I could..

Wanted to see if the wonderful members had any good ones up theirs sleeves

Not so much a 'christmas' cake..but a rich fruit cake that I always do at christmas. REALLY easy and quick to do. You could marzipan/ice it if you wanted.

Boiled Fruit Cake
1lb packet of mixed fruit
Half pound of soft margarine
One mug of sugar
One cup of well brewed tea straight from teapot
Half teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
Half teaspoon of salt

1. Put all of the above into a saucepan and bring to the boil and simmer approx 10 to 15 minutes.
Take off heat and allow to cool right down.

2.Add two mugs of self raising flour and stir well.

3. Wash carton of glace cherries to remove the syrup and half and roll them in some flour to prevent them sinking to bottom of cake and two beaten eggs – mix well.

4. Put into well greased cake tin. (I have an 8” loose bottomed cake tin) and sprinkle the top with more sugar.

5. Cook on low heat 150C or gas mark 2 for approx 2+ hours. Check cooked properly by pushing a knife into the centre and it should come out clean.

I usually use Delia's classic Christmas cake recipe. Or a variant of it - I sometimes change the quantities of some of the ingredients a little, so long as the dried fruit etc all adds up to the same overall weight. Has always worked out really well.

And I wouldn't worry about it being too late - I'm planning on doing mine next week, and usually do it mid October, then feed it every couple of weeks. It's just right by Christmas. If you prefer your cake more boozy, you could feed it a bit more often.