All in Holiday

'Tis the Season – Traditional British Christmas Cakes

If you do British Christmas, you do British Christmas Cake. Its most akin to what we’d call a fruitcake here, but I wouldn’t want to malign this delicious, boozy tradition with that association. It’s taken some time to nail my gluten free method with homemade refined sugar free marzipan and a good fondant, but now that I’m happy with the results, I’m playing around with a new marshmallow fondant recipe, and fondant snowflake decorations for shippable cakes to send to family and friends. These cakes are typically made many weeks in advance, fed booze regularly, and then enrobed in a layer of marzipan and fondant and then decorated simply so that they can be stored on a cool countertop to be enjoyed throughout the season, but…