This is my original Christmas cake from the first book – a combination of my grandmother’s, my mother’s and a few tweaks from me. (There are more fruit cake recipes... This is where it all begins: ...
Now spoon the cake mix into the prepared tin, level off the top with the back of a spoon, then sprinkle over the remaining third of the cherries and poke them just under the surface with a teaspoon.
Recipes for larger layer cakes mix and bake one layer at a time, so you can mix a manageable amount of batter and re-use a single large tin. The recipe uses UK medium eggs (approx 60g/2¼oz).
Andrew Fuller, the colorful personality who won Season 1 of “Is It Cake?,” returns to television Nov. 28 during a special holiday edition of the Netflix show. The Des Moines-based baker ...