Tag: fruit cake

A Baking Mistake Isn’t Necessarily a Disaster …

November 16, 2023.Reading time 14 minutes.

I’ve said on these pages a number of times that I’m not really a baker. By this I mean I rarely bake cakes and tend to stick to old favourites most of the time when I do. The particular old favourite that I’m writing about here goes back an impressive 40 years! I’ve written about […]

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Quick & Easy Dundee Cake

September 11, 2015.Reading time 8 minutes.

Making a Dundee Cake is a risky business for me; fraught with the potential for family discord. It’s part of family history that I used to make Delia Smith’s Whisky Dundee Cake (in her Christmas book from 1990) for my son often when I visited him at university in Manchester or made one for him […]

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Last-Minute Light Christmas Cake

December 22, 2014.Reading time 7 minutes.

There is a family story about Dundee cake. I took to making Scottish Whisky Dundee Cake for Christmas from Delia Smith’s Christmas book way back when it was first published in 1990 and my kids were still quite small. No one in the family – other than me – likes ‘proper’ Christmas cake: a rich, dark […]

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