Morrisons Tunis Cake, 200g

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If you are looking for an impressive cake for the festivities, we can highly recommend the Morrisons The Best Christmas Fully Iced Cake. It’s an extremely chocolatey sponge roll that is covered in milk chocolate and has chocolate buttercream.

The iced design is simple and impressive and cutting through the ice and marzipan reveals a rich sweet-smelling fruitcake. The artisan bakers have been delivering tasty produce for nearly 50 years and these Christmas cakes are sold around the world. We have already mentioned Meg Rivers and their slogan as ‘Bakers of Happiness’ really is true when tasting their Classic Fully Iced Christmas Cake. uk, it is the perfect festive treat with decent layers of marzipan and icing and lots of brandy-soaked, juicy fruit to enjoy.And even so, your frosting will harden up when it comes into contact with the frozen cake, making spreading it difficult. It's also much easier to level a cake that's still partially frozen (like after 20 to 30 minutes of thawing). Removing the plastic without knocking this condensation back onto the surface of the cake takes a steady hand.

Some recipes, such as the BBC Good Food and Mary Berry recipe, top the cake with marzipan holly leaves and berries instead of marzipan fruits.

It not only has a vintage look and feel, but there’s a real homemade taste to the cake itself with big pieces of cherry and lots of spice. It has also been hand decorated and covered with marzipan and there’s a big splash of brandy to bring the moist, rich fruit cake’s flavour alive.

And lastly, frosting a chilled cake is much easier since a chilled (or frozen) cake won't shed as many crumbs into the frosting as a room-temperature cake. In March 1934 the Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser printed a recipe including the North African fruits dates, figs, walnuts and prunes. It consists of sponge cake spiced with nutmeg, cinnamon and ginger and filled with cranberries, sultanas and apricots. The mini-Christmas cake is made by Meg Rivers in the Cotswolds (see below) as an exclusive offering. As a regular winner of best Christmas cake awards, this Meg Rivers creation for 2021 really is hard to beat.

In 1936 Garratt's Bakers of Lichfield included honey, dates and walnuts in their recipe, plus topping the cake with chocolate icing.

This helps keep the bottoms flat, which might be an issue in freezers with wire racks rather than flat shelves. The cake itself has been slow-baked in small batches and then matured for at least three months before being finished with an ivory sugar paste and natural marzipan. When it comes to finding the best Christmas cakes in 2021, cake lovers will be impressed by the sheer range of quality products available. Here, we look at some of the best Christmas cakes from independent producers, and we also have a look at what the supermarkets are producing too. Cookies collect information about your preferences and your devices and are used to make the site work as you expect it to, to understand how you interact with the site, and to show advertisements that are targeted to your interests.This looks like a traditional Christmas cake with an effective and classy decoration and it’s something of an all-rounder that will impress family and guests whenever it is served up. Following on from the very tasty Morrisons Iced Christmas cake and its simple design, here’s a more extravagant design to get your teeth into. The standout feature here is that each slice of the cake has been wrapped individually so there’s no need to worry over slicing – it can just be served straight onto plates.