The Christmas cake is tasted
As promised, we have tasted the Christmas cake this evening, despite being rather full after a Chinese takeaway. The result: it tastes like Christmas cake, but without one ingredient, due to complete incompetency on my part. The absence, which I forgot about when I wrote the previous entry, was noticed immediately when I cut open the cake to reveal its insides. There was a distinct lack of red circles.
When I made the cake, I thought I’d forgotten to buy some glace cherries, despite them having been on the list. I really couldn’t remember buying them, though, and I couldn’t see them in the cupboard. So, I used dried apricots instead, which also add moisture to fruit cakes. When it was too late, I discovered a tub of natural coloured glace cherries in the cupboard. Oh.
Anyway, it’s fine, if a little burnt-tasting to my palate. Colin thinks it’s ok. The marzipan is fine if you don’t look at it, although it’s quite thick. The icing is thin. I forgot to mention yesterday that the marzipan dried out a bit after application to the cake and is no longer a claggy mess, but like marzipan.
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categories: Food and Drink
tags: Colin, Domestic Goddessery
series: Xmas 2009
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