Christmas cake is a type of fruitcake with marzipan and icing. It is a popular Christmas desert in United Kingdom, Ireland and most of the Commonwealth countries. There are a few histories about origin of the Christmas cake.

There is a storey about Christmas cake is an English tradition that began as plum porridge. After Christian fasting period, during Christmas Eve people will start eat with porridge. Then dried fruit, spices and honey are added into the porridge mixture and eventually it turned into Christmas pudding. At 16th century oatmeal was removed from the original recipe, and butter, wheat flour and eggs were added. These ingredients helped hold the mixture together and in what resulted in a boiled plum cake. Some wealthy family will add marzipan, almond sugar paste into the fruitcake for Easter. During Christmas, people produce similar cake with dried fruit and spices and eventually known as "Christmas cake”.

Christmascake

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Traditional Christmascake

Dundee-cake

There is also storey about the Christmas cake is introduce by the Victorians as a custom. Prior to that period, cake was eaten during Christmas, but without the toppings. The idea of using marzipan is linked to the Tudor Marchpane an iced and decorated cake of marzipan that acted as the table centerpiece during banquets and festive occasions.

Christmas cake has been serving in variety of favor and appearance, such light or dark, crumbly-moist to sticky-wet, spongy to heavy, leavened or unleavened, shaped round, square or oblong as whole cakes, fairy cakes, or petit fours, with marzipan, icing, glazing, dusting with confectioner's sugar, or plain, etc.

Whisky Dundee is a popular Scottish Christmas cake. People who don't like rich, very moist fruitcakes during Christmas, Scottish Whisky Dundee Cake are the best alternative. It has a lighter and much more crumbly texture than The Classic Christmas Cake and the addition of some Scotch malt whisky gives it a special Christmas edge. As the name implies, the cake originated in Dundee and is made with Scotch whisky. People always use good quality Scottish whisky to experience the true traditional flavor of the Dundee Cake. Besides, traditional recipe usually contain candied peel, sultanas, currants, cherries and almonds whereas more modern recipes for Dundee Cake include raisins and additional flavorings such as cinnamon and mixed spice. Most modern recipes use other spirits such as rum and brandy or even sherry.

The mincemeat cake is made with traditional mincemeat or vegetarian mincemeat, flour, eggs, etc. It can also be steamed as a Christmas pudding. If you've been meaning to make a Christmas cake but haven't got round to it, Sherry Mincemeat Cake is the best choice that can be made at the last minute. It is one of the nicest Christmas cakes ever. In fact it could be bake on Christmas morning and would be ready for tea in the afternoon. If possible, it require three days to pre-soak some of the ingredients in sherry, but if there is only three hours, that will do. It is an all-in-one cake recipe; mean that all ingredients can be mix together then mixed and bakes with hardly any effort.

Other types of Christmas cakes include an apple crème cake. The apple crème cake is made with apples, other fruit, raisins, eggs, and cream cheese and whipping cream. Once the Christmas cake is ready, it is not served as it is but it is first decorated to give it an attracted look and make anyone feel mouth watering who comes across this Christmas cake. Decorate the Christmas cake with cake toppings to give it an attractive look and a delicious taste. If you it is a vanilla flavored Christmas cake then garnish it with crushed chocolate as it gives a mixed taste of chocolate and vanilla flavor. Nowadays eatable decorative items are also used to decorate Christmas cakes like Christmas pudding cake decorations, pink angel cake decorations, Santa’s hat cake decorations and much more. Well all those who are planning to make Christmas cakes attractive and a remembrance.

Coins were also occasionally added to Christmas Cakes as good luck Touch Pieces. The usual choices were silver 3d piece, or sixpences, sometimes wrapped in greaseproof paper packages.

Most Christmas cakes are made in advance, usually during November. Then the Christmas cakes are keeping upside down in an airtight container. A small amount of brandy, sherry or whisky is poured into holes in the cake every week until Christmas. This process is called “feeding” the cake.

In Northern England, Christmas cake is often eaten with cheese, such as Wensleydale.

Japan Christmas cake, traditionally eaten on Christmas Eve, it is a frosted sponge cake with strawberries, chocolates or seasonal fruit. There is about 73 percent responded to celebrate Christmas with a cake. In Japan culture it is an expression that to call women over the age of 25 "Christmas cake". In Japan age counts there's a lot of pressure on women to get married, their ideal of feminine beauty is youth and innocence is before 30 years old. If an unmarried woman, heading towards thirty, they will call as "left on the shelf" or maybe "past your sell-by date" and compare such women to a "Christmas Cake". Which mean it may well be sweet and delicious, but no one really wants any after the 25th. So, if you're an unmarried Japanese woman, after the age of twenty-five, you're in extreme danger of becoming a Christmas cake. However now the age is raised to 31, linked to toshikoshi-soba, a noodle dish eaten on December 31st.