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Christmas cake

Christmas cake is a type of fruitcake

Fruitcake

Fruitcake is a cake made with chopped candied fruit and/or dried fruit, Nut s, and spices, and soaked in liquor. In the United Kingdom, certain rich versions may be iced and cake decorating....
served at Christmas

Christmas

Christmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts Twelve Days of Christmas....
time in the UK

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
, Philippines

Philippines

Commonwealth of Nations

The Commonwealth of Nations, also known as the Commonwealth or the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organization of fifty-three independent member states....
countries.

A Christmas cake may be light or dark, crumbly-moist to sticky-wet, spongy to heavy, leavened or unleavened, shaped round, square or oblong as whole cakes, fairy cakes

Cupcake

A cupcake or fairy cake , is a small cake designed to serve one person, frequently baked in a small, thin paper cup. As with larger cakes, icing and other cake decorating, such as sprinkles, are common on cupcakes....
, or petit fours, with marzipan

Marzipan

Marzipan is a confectionery consisting primarily of sugar and almond meal.It derives its characteristic flavor from bitter almonds, which constitute 4% to 6% of the total almond content by weight....
, icing

Icing (food)

Icing, also called frosting, is a sweet Glaze made of sugar that often also contains butter, water, egg whites, milk, or flavorings and is used to cover or cake decorating baked goods, such as cakes or cookies....
, glazing, dusting with icing sugar, or plain, etc.

A particular favourite of many is the traditional Scottish

Scotland

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Christmas cake, the Whisky Dundee.

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Christmas cake is a type of fruitcake

Fruitcake

Christmas

United Kingdom

Ireland

Japan

Philippines

Commonwealth of Nations

Cupcake

Marzipan

Icing (food)

Scotland

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Christmas cake, the Whisky Dundee. As the name implies, the cake originated in Dundee and is made with Scotch whisky

Scotch whisky

Scotch whisky is whisky made in Scotland. In Britain, the term whisky is usually taken to mean Scotch unless otherwise specified. In List of countries where English is an official language, it is often referred to as "Scotch"....
. It is a light and crumbly cake, and light on fruit and candied peel—only currant

Zante currant

The Zante currant or currant is a variety of small, sweet, seedless grape named after Corinth and the Ionian Islands island of Zakynthos and not to be confused with the ribes berry "currants" which are in a different family altogether....
s, raisin

Raisin

Raisins are Dried fruit grapes. They are created in many regions of the world, such as the United States, Australia, Chile, Argentina, Republic of Macedonia, Mexico, Greece, Turkey, India, Iran, Pakistan, China, Afghanistan, Togo, and Jamaica, as well as South Africa and Southern Europe and Eastern Europe....
s, sultana

Sultana (grape)

The sultana is a type of white, seedless grape of Turkey, Greece or Iran origin. It is also the name given to the raisin made from it; such sultana raisins are often called simply sultanas or sultanis. These are typically larger than the Zante currants made from Zante grapes, but smaller than "normal" Raisin....
s and cherries

Cherry

The word cherry refers to a fleshy fruit that contains a single stony seed. The cherry belongs to the family Rosaceae, genus Prunus, along with almonds, peaches, plums, apricots and bird cherry ....
. This Christmas cake is particularly good for people who don't like very rich and moist cakes. As with all fruitcakes, the almond

Almond

The Almond is a species of tree of the genus Prunus, belonging to the subfamily Prunoideae of the family Rosaceae and native to the Middle East....
s (or other nuts) can be omitted by people who don't like them or those with severe nut allergies.

At the other end of the Christmas cake continuum, the apple creme Christmas cake is a rich mix of finely sliced apple

APPLE

This article is about the satellite APPLE. For the fruit apple, see Apple. For other uses see Apple .The Ariane Passenger PayLoad Experiment , was an experimental communication satellite with a C-Band transponder launched by Indian Space Research Organisation satellite on June 19, 1981 by Ariane 1, a launch vehicle of the European Spac...
s, raisins and other fruit, with eggs, cream cheese

Cream cheese

Cream cheese is a sweet, soft, mild-tasting, white cheese, defined by the US Department of Agriculture as containing at least 33% milkfat with a moisture content of not more than 55%, and a pH range of 4.4 to 4.9....
, and heavy whipping cream

Whipped cream

Whipped cream is cream, often sweetened, whipped with air. Cream with 30% or more fat can be mixed with air, and the resulting colloid is roughly double the volume of the original cream as air bubbles are captured in a network of fat droplets....
.

In the middle of the spectrum is the mincemeat

Mincemeat

Mincemeat is a mixture of chopped dried fruit, distilled spirits and spices, and sometimes beef suet, beef, or venison. Originally, mincemeat always contained meat....
Christmas cake, which is simply any traditional or vegetarian mincemeat mixed with flour, eggs, etc., to transform it into a cake batter; or it can also be steamed as a Christmas pudding

Christmas pudding

Christmas pudding is the dessert traditionally served on Christmas day. It has its origins in England, and is sometimes known as plum pudding, though this can also refer to other kinds of boiled pudding involving a lot of dried fruit....
.

Coins were also occasionally added to Christmas Cakes as well as Christmas Pudding

Christmas pudding

Touch pieces

Touch pieces are coins and medals that have attracted Superstition, such as those with 'holes' in them or those with particular designs. Such pieces were believed to cure disease, bring good luck, influence people's behaviour, carry out a specific practical action, et cetera....
. The usual choices were silver 3d piece, or sixpence

Sixpence

Sixpence may refer to:*Sixpence *Sixpence *Sixpence *Flat cap, also called a sixpence*Sixpence None the Richer, a Christian pop/rock band...
s, sometimes wrapped in grease proof paper packages.

In Northern England

Northern England

Northern England, the North, the North of England, or the North Country refers to the parts of England north of an ill-defined line....
, Christmas cake, as with other types of fruit cake, is often eaten with cheese, such as Wensleydale

Wensleydale (cheese)

Wensleydale cheese is a cheese produced in the town of Hawes in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, England. There are four types, all of which are suitable for vegetarians:...
.

Christmas cake in other countries

In Japan

Japan

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve, December 24, is the night before Christmas Day, which celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ ....
, is simply a sponge cake

Sponge cake

File:Sponge cake.jpgSponge cake is a cake based on flour , sugar, and Egg s, sometimes leavened with baking powder, that derives its structure from an egg foam into which the other ingredients are folded....
, frosted with whipped cream, often decorated with strawberries, and usually topped with Christmas chocolates or other seasonal fruit. In the Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
, Christmas cakes are bright rich yellow pound cakes with macerated nuts or fruitcakes of the British fashion. Both are soaked in copious amounts of brandy or rum mixed with a simple syrup of palm sugar and water. Traditionally, civet

Civet

The family Viverridae is made up of 35 species, including all of the genet , the Binturong, most of the civets, and the four linsangs.Viverrids are native to most of the Old World tropics, nearly all of Africa , Madagascar, and the Iberian Peninsula....
or ambergris

Ambergris

Ambergris is a solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull gray or blackish color produced in the digestive system of sperm whales.Ambergris has a peculiar sweet, earthy odor....
musk flavoring is added, but rosewater or orange flower water is more common now, as civet musk and ambergris have become very expensive. These liquor-laden cakes can usually stay fresh for many months provided they are handled properly.