A Winter Cake
Happy 2021! We made it through 2020 and have emerged into a brand-new year. Have you made any resolutions? My resolution for this year is to be kind to myself. I’m a bit of a perfectionist and that leads to me being my own very harsh critic - so I’m now working on not being! The other thing I intend to focus on is to enjoy whatever it is I’m doing, even if I can’t create a masterpiece. With that in mind, this week’s post is a Winter Cake. You may have heard them called Christmas cakes but if they’re not finished until January, it’s a Winter Cake! It’s true!! With all the food we had to be eaten by less people due to the late Tier change rules, we really didn’t need the cake. However, we’ve now ploughed our way through the festive goodies and so it was time for the cake to make an appearance. I made the fruit cake way back in October using Nigella Lawson’s Boozy Christmas cake recipe. I also used a cake belt for the first time. I...