Royal Iced Traditional Christmas Fruit Cake

The last order date for this cake is 1st December. Deliveries commence from 12th December, so please do not select delivery before this date.  

This exquisite handmade and very boozy fruit cake will be the majestic centrepiece of your Christmas feast.  Each cake begins with our skilled bakers soaking the vine fruit in French brandy for 24 hours.  This allows the flavour of the brandy to permeate through the fruit and to make them nice and juicy.  We then carefully mix all the ingredients together, and so not to crush the fruit, we stir the mixture by hand.  We then bake the cake low and slow to keep it moist.  Once cool, we "feed" the cake with more brandy and wrap it in foil and store for a couple of weeks.  We then open it up again and feed the cake with even more brandy.  All this "feeding" ensures a moist and boozy cake and the long storage allows the cake to mature in flavour and darken in colour.  A week before we deliver the cake to you, our bakers brush the cake with warmed apricot jam and expertly cover the cake with marzipan.  The jam sticks the marzipan to the cake and both serve to seal in the moisture of the cake.  After a couple of days the marzipan has fully dried and is ready for our handmade royal icing.  Royal icing is made from egg whites and icing sugar which is then expertly applied to cake to give a whimsical winter snow scene.  A day or so later the icing will have dried and a ribbon with hand-crafted bow is wrapped around the cake. 

Each cake is also presented on a silver foil cake board as shown in the images. 

Choose either the large size, which is 8 inches in diameter and serves 16-20, or the small size, which is 6 inches in diameter and serves 8-12.  Free delivery in Birmingham, Sutton Coldfield and Walsall only. Alternatively, check out our cakes by post here.

Contains: Wheat flour (gluten), sugar, free-range eggs, currants, sultanas, raisins, glace cherries (cherries, glucose-fructose syrup, sugar, citric acid, potassium sorbate, sulphur dioxide, colour (erythrosine)), dried apricots (sulphur dioxide), mixed candied peel (glucose-fructose syrup, orange peel, lemon peel, salt, citric acid, sulphur dioxide), French brandy, nutmeg, mixed spice (cinnamon, coriander, caraway, nutmeg, ginger, cloves), vegetable fat spread (vegetable oils, water, salt, buttermilk (milk), potassium sorbate, mono and diglycerides of fatty acids, citric acid, flavourings, vitamin A and D, carotene), chopped almonds (nuts), black treacle (sulphur dioxide), lemon rind, orange rind, apricot jam (apricots, glucose-fructose syrup, sugar, pectin, citric acid and sodium citrates), marzipan (sugar, almonds (nuts), glucose syrup, water, invert sugar syrup, lutein), royal icing (raw egg whites, sugar, glycerine).  May contain traces of peanuts, mustard, other nuts, soya and sesame.

Allergens are in bold.