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Christmas cake is horrid. Morgawse Send a noteboard - 04/12/2011 07:25:59 PM
As is Christmas pudding. And I'm not 100% clear on the distinction either, seems like one is very much like the other but minus the marzipan and icing.

Thankfully this means that when we have to spend Christmas at the outlaws (not this year! Hurray!) the boyfriend's mother gets a chocolate cake that's just for him and me to share. (He does not like Christmas cake either, the rest of his family do) This arrangement suits me just fine :D It almost makes up for the ridiculously large turkey that will turn up, in leftovers form, in every meal for the following week. I don't even like turkey. Neither do the rest of them. They just eat it because they feel they're supposed to, at Christmas. Christmas in Britain is entirely mad if you ask me. Not necessarily in a bad way, but...very odd if you grew up elsewhere.
Jennifer

Mornings are still not for me.
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I am confused. Do Americans not do cake at Christmas? - 04/12/2011 10:59:04 AM 1745 Views
chrimbo cake is the BEST! - 04/12/2011 11:41:28 AM 935 Views
Re: chrimbo cake is the BEST! - 04/12/2011 11:48:56 AM 969 Views
Chicken pot pies are pretty great. - 04/12/2011 07:18:47 PM 912 Views
Most do not. - 04/12/2011 11:46:09 AM 1002 Views
Fruitcake - 04/12/2011 12:39:23 PM 1071 Views
This - 05/12/2011 01:38:49 AM 949 Views
Christmas Cake is divine. - 04/12/2011 02:03:44 PM 997 Views
No, generally we do not make cake for Christmas. *NM* - 04/12/2011 04:41:05 PM 446 Views
Cake? - 04/12/2011 05:03:02 PM 976 Views
We don't have a sheet of icing? - 04/12/2011 05:08:00 PM 938 Views
We have different icing. It is not typically a very dense, flat sheet of solid icing. Like fondant. - 04/12/2011 07:46:41 PM 1255 Views
That's just for Christmas cakes and wedding cakes, usually. - 04/12/2011 07:58:55 PM 1064 Views
Ah - 04/12/2011 08:33:29 PM 945 Views
No. (with other responses) - 04/12/2011 05:03:51 PM 1249 Views
its a fruit cake with a layer of marzipan and a layer of icing on top - 04/12/2011 08:32:55 PM 1062 Views
Plus with loads of brandy used to "feed" the cake over the month before you ice it. - 04/12/2011 08:45:28 PM 943 Views
i put three teaspoons on each cake once a week - 04/12/2011 09:35:23 PM 950 Views
You make pretty cakes! *NM* - 04/12/2011 11:53:16 PM 458 Views
thanks - 04/12/2011 11:58:40 PM 975 Views
Fruitcake is yummy - 05/12/2011 05:41:59 PM 872 Views
I dunno if they do cake, but Jason Biggs does pie. *NM* - 04/12/2011 05:18:22 PM 456 Views
Your boozecake intrigues me. - 04/12/2011 06:01:14 PM 995 Views
Christmas cake? Jeez, how awkward ARE you people? - 04/12/2011 06:21:06 PM 974 Views
I hate Christmas cake - 04/12/2011 06:35:49 PM 1110 Views
Nope. My family has no Christmas-themed desserts. - 04/12/2011 07:17:38 PM 945 Views
Christmas cake is horrid. - 04/12/2011 07:25:59 PM 1182 Views
We do ham a lot Christmas - 05/12/2011 01:01:03 PM 884 Views
Re: We do ham a lot Christmas - 05/12/2011 01:45:53 PM 1068 Views
me and my first wife did steaks for Christmas one year - 05/12/2011 05:17:47 PM 911 Views
Pie in November and December. Cake the rest of the year. - 04/12/2011 11:52:31 PM 992 Views
I assume your Christmas cake is our Fruit Cake. - 05/12/2011 01:25:07 AM 955 Views
It is, as far as I can tell. - 05/12/2011 01:55:40 PM 1302 Views
The icing looks so... thick. - 05/12/2011 05:23:44 PM 967 Views
we do cake sometimes but not usually - 05/12/2011 02:05:50 AM 932 Views
My family does... though - 05/12/2011 02:08:13 PM 1014 Views
We typically have flan....with some vanilla ice cream. - 05/12/2011 03:57:50 PM 1003 Views
I adore flan... *NM* - 07/12/2011 10:50:00 PM 618 Views
No. We do cookie swaps and gingerbread houses. *edit* - 05/12/2011 05:18:31 PM 993 Views
our family offerings are bread pudding and sugar cookies. - 05/12/2011 05:25:01 PM 962 Views
I have no concept of a "Christmas" cake - 05/12/2011 08:15:30 PM 869 Views
Message from the Queen to Americains: 'Let Them Eat Cake!' *NM* - 07/12/2011 06:16:59 AM 414 Views

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