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Happy Christmas Smoked Meaters!
I wanted to show a traditional Christmas Cake. My husband is English and Christmas wouldn't be Christmas with out this cake.
American's think of this as a fruit cake. Yes it has fruit, but raisins and currants and real dried cherries. There isn't any of that wierd sugary fruit we have here.
So, about 4 weeks ago I made the cake. I wrapped it in parchment paper, poked holes in the top of the cake and I 'fed' it a few tablespoons of brandy and gran marnier every week. I kept it in the garage where it is about 40 degrees in a tupperware container.
After it has been 'fed' for a few weeks I take it out of the garage just before Christmas and glaze it with jam because I am going to put a layer of marzipan on the cake and the marzipan won't stick to the cake without something...well...sticky.
I used tawny orange marmalade
Next I took some marzipan and rolled it out thusly
and wacked it on the cake.
Now it gets either a layer of fondant or royal icing. I opted for fondant this year because I like the "TA-DA!" factor.
Fondant rolled out.
Fondant on....and now
"TA-DA!!"
Chrissy Cake!
Now...Into the smoker for two hours at 200F
hehe...kidding.
Thanks for checking out my cake. Merry Christmas to all!
I wanted to show a traditional Christmas Cake. My husband is English and Christmas wouldn't be Christmas with out this cake.
American's think of this as a fruit cake. Yes it has fruit, but raisins and currants and real dried cherries. There isn't any of that wierd sugary fruit we have here.
So, about 4 weeks ago I made the cake. I wrapped it in parchment paper, poked holes in the top of the cake and I 'fed' it a few tablespoons of brandy and gran marnier every week. I kept it in the garage where it is about 40 degrees in a tupperware container.
After it has been 'fed' for a few weeks I take it out of the garage just before Christmas and glaze it with jam because I am going to put a layer of marzipan on the cake and the marzipan won't stick to the cake without something...well...sticky.
I used tawny orange marmalade
Next I took some marzipan and rolled it out thusly
and wacked it on the cake.
Now it gets either a layer of fondant or royal icing. I opted for fondant this year because I like the "TA-DA!" factor.
Fondant rolled out.
Fondant on....and now
"TA-DA!!"
Chrissy Cake!
Now...Into the smoker for two hours at 200F
hehe...kidding.
Thanks for checking out my cake. Merry Christmas to all!
Absolutly awesome!
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