Preparing for Christmas

It's that time of year again, time to start preparing my Christmas cake. Actually according to the recipe I am following I should have started about 3 weeks ago! Oh well, better late than never. 

I have made a couple of Christmas cakes using this recipe before and they have turned out really well. It's from Ruth Clements' blog, The Pink Whisk. 

Christmas cake 2011

This year I am freestyling a bit with the fruit mix. My dad will not eat currants raisins or sultanas so I have missed them out the recipe. 

So at the moment I have a mix of cranberries,figs,dates,apricots,glacé cherries,dried cherries and fruit peel maturing in a brandy/sherry/orange sugar syrup. 

It's safely tucked away in a Tupperware box in my kitchen cupboard and It will stay there for next few weeks! 

I'll be back when it's time to make the cake.