Christmas Cake Recipe Delia. If you re making and decorating a christmas cake for the first time. This is a very dark rich fruit cake.

Watch delia smith take you through the steps of making this seasonal classic. This competition is now closed. I do actually like the cake as much as i can like a fruit cake it s the marzipan and icing that i m not fond of.

So now this is the recipe i always use.

I made a couple of different cakes handed them to the christmas cake eaters and this was voted the favourite. Reveal label desktop true reveal desktop true label close read less kipper pate and it was for. Put all the dried fruit in a container pour over the sherry and stir in the orange zest. Cover with clingfilm and leave to soak for three days.