You will love this stunning 16cm square Christmas fruit cake baked by the Zarbo kitchen. Each cake is packed full of delicious dried fruits and topped with colourful glace fruits and nuts. A little time on the shelf stored in an airtight container will add to the richness in texture of this cake.
Historically, Christmas cakes originated from Christmas pudding. In the 16th century, oats were removed from what was practically a porridge recipe and butter, wheat flour and eggs were added. This helped hold the mixture together to form what resulted in a boiled plum cake. Richer families that had ovens began making fruit cakes with marzipan and almond sugar paste, for Easter. For Christmas, they made a similar cake using seasonal dried fruit and spices. The spices represented the exotic eastern spices brought by the Wise Men and became known as "Christmas cake".
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