Christmas Cake 2012 - Part 2

After a few weeks soaking in the brandy syrup, it's time to bake the fruit into the cake. The cake is always cooked at half term, giving a good few weeks of feeding before Christmas.

I baked the cake according to the secret family recipe, but left out an ounce of sugar to make up for the syrup, then baked for hours and hours until cooked through.

This is my little girl's third year of making the cake with me and properly joined in this year, although I had to stop her doing her usual trick of eating handfuls of the cake mixture: far too much brandy!