Realgrumpytyke

By Realgrumpytyke

Christmas cakes - blip Christmas bakeoff

Three Christmas cakes, one already eaten so it's in extras.
The one of the left is for a get-together of some Yorkshire and Romanian friends, on Boxing Day, hence the Romanian and Yorkshire flags and representations of Rarau mountain in Romania and the Cow and Calf rocks here in Yorkshire.
The cake on the right is, not surprisingly, for a get-together of teachers a couple of days later.
The one in extras, blipped during decoration on 11th December, was for a meeting of our Writers Club on the 12th. It attempts to represent the first ever 'typewriter', the Type Ball, invented in Denmark in 1865 by the Rev Rasmus Malling-Hansen. Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was an early user.
PS. Many thanks to JazzyB for the challenge, which gave me the extra motivation needed during the last minute rush.
If you haven't yet made your Christmas cake I can recommend James Martin's recipe, which I used as I hadn't made mine a few months in advance as usual. It's quick and easy and gives a luscious moist cake with plump, juicy fruit. I blipped the cakes during making on 4th December.

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