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Old 10-10-2013, 17:21
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Has anyone made one yet?
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Old 10-10-2013, 21:20
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Has anyone made one yet?
Yep - October last year.
It's well "fed" and wrapped in grease proof inside a Cadbury Roses tin.
I checked it last week - moist and smells scrummy.
A previous cake was 2 years in storage
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Old 10-10-2013, 21:26
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Yep - October last year.
It's well "fed" and wrapped in grease proof inside a Cadbury Roses tin.
I checked it last week - moist and smells scrummy.
A previous cake was 2 years in storage
Is greaseproof preferable to foil ? I don't store mine that long but do feed them lots of rum.
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Old 10-10-2013, 21:37
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Is greaseproof preferable to foil ? I don't store mine that long but do feed them lots of rum.
I wasn't clear, I'm sorry.
I have foil as an outer wrapper, grease proof as inner wrapper.
I didn't set out to store them that long.
The first time I made a cake my son invited us to his and they had a cake so I stored it.
The following year they came to us and brought a fully decorated cake they'd made so mine remained stored.
The next year I made sure we ate ours!
It was fine - moist and tasty.
The current one (no pun) is fed with brandy and smells just great and it WILL get eaten this year!
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Old 11-10-2013, 09:38
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I made mine last Sunday and it is now wrapped in greaseproof inside a Cadbury's Roses tin - they are THE definitive cake storage tin
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Old 11-10-2013, 09:44
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I made mine last Sunday and it is now wrapped in greaseproof inside a Cadbury's Roses tin - they are THE definitive cake storage tin
Leave it there until next year!
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Old 11-10-2013, 10:41
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I made my own Xmas cakes for about 25 years. One year I won a M & S iced cake and everybody said how nice it was so I gave up making my own.

Since then I have discovered that Lidl Xmas cakes are wonderful and actually better than M & S - in our opinion anyway.
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Old 11-10-2013, 18:08
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I made mine last Sunday and it is now wrapped in greaseproof inside a Cadbury's Roses tin - they are THE definitive cake storage tin
I was going to make my first one this year.

But I have no Rose's tin- do I need to go and buy a tin of chocolates?

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Old 11-10-2013, 19:13
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I wasn't clear, I'm sorry.
I have foil as an outer wrapper, grease proof as inner wrapper.
I didn't set out to store them that long.
The first time I made a cake my son invited us to his and they had a cake so I stored it.
The following year they came to us and brought a fully decorated cake they'd made so mine remained stored.
The next year I made sure we ate ours!
It was fine - moist and tasty.
The current one (no pun) is fed with brandy and smells just great and it WILL get eaten this year!
That's a good idea to wrap it in greaseproof first. I make an additional small one with the leftover mixture and I freeze it until the summer but the foil sticks.
I use a Roses.
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Old 12-10-2013, 06:47
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I made two the other day - the ingredients cost me £100 including the cake tins and storage tins

Should have just bought them lol

They are wrapped in foil and are being fed with Drambuie. They are Drambuie and orange Christmas cakes.

I hope it's bloody worth it.

I'm going to give marshmallow fondant a try as well when the time comes.
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Old 12-10-2013, 14:35
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I'm going to give marshmallow fondant a try as well when the time comes.
I made these as little Christmas gifts - just three cubes in a little presentation box.
They are incredibly rich and very tasty
http://www.thediaryofacakemaker.com/...n-sugar-fudge/
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Old 12-10-2013, 16:11
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I was going to make my first one this year.

But I have no Rose's tin- do I need to go and buy a tin of chocolates?

Yes, yes you do! The bonus being that before you can store the cake in the tin you have to do something with the contents first...

Roses, or Celebrations tins are the best cake storage solutions in my humble opinion
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Old 07-11-2013, 17:35
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I have a big problem!!

I made my Xmas cake in September and its been storing ever since apart from the brandy lacing I have been doing every few weeks. Its lovely and moist and smells great

HOWEVER

I just realised today that I forgot to add in the mixed spice. I can't believe this happened and I cannot believe its taken me so long to realise.

Will this effect the taste at all? I don't want to be serving a cake to guests if its rank and I need to know now as it least gives me a five weeks to prepare a new one.

Thanks anyone!
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Old 07-11-2013, 19:18
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Prepare a new one now and if the first one is ok, save number two for next year. If it's rank, serve number two.
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Old 07-11-2013, 19:53
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So you think not having mixed spice in will effect the taste then? Thing is it smells lovely.

I think I will just buy a one as back up. Just incase lol

Edit just checked again and had a sly nibble. I actually think its going to be ok. I will feed it extra brandy tomorrow and then leave it until icing. I will just use extra jam under the marzipan so if it does lack favour at least the topping will make up for it.
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