Fast Christmas Cake - Food for any Occasion

I love preparing the annual Christmas Cake more than I actually like eating it. I'm more of a chocolate cake kind of girl; but its tradition, so I make one every year.

I actually did mine in early November; but I got a text from my brother's partner asking me to make them one to decorate, so I thought it was a great chance to try a different recipe.

Which one to choose though?!

I found this one from Good To Know - it looked really easy and with life getting busier in the run up to Christmas, easy sounded perfect.

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Without doubt it was the fastest Christmas Cake I've ever made and it tastes delicious! I know because I made a mini one for us to try. When I was making the big cake I had to endure the amazing smell of it baking and then not be able to have a slice until Christmas. I used my new pork pie tin - I've not had the chance to try it yet and baked a teeny, tiny Christmas Cake.

I can confirm in advance of Christmas that the recipe is amazing, delicious, easy and very fast. It's not as darkly fruit cake tasting, probably why I like it. I think you could remedy this by using dark muscovado sugar and an extra table spoon of mixed spice.

If you haven't had chance to make a cake yet then this is the one to go with.

Oh and if you want a giggle, check out the comments on the bottom. Anyone that knows what mincemeat is in the UK while think this is brilliant. It's like the Friends episode when Rachel cooks dessert.