#christmas cake

[kyomon0]

LOOK AT MY CAKE!!!

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[pinkfairiesteaparty]

[kawaii-foodie]

atelier.ladouceur

[graceandopulence]

[andallshallbewell]

[petermorwood]

"Quality Street" sweets - TIL that...

...despite this particular brand of sweets appearing in my childhood most often at Christmas, historic costumes worn by characters on the tins were NOT a part of the widespread "Dickensian Christmas" look which appeared so often on cards and packaging.

Instead it's because the characters and their Regency costumes were inspired by a play by "Peter Pan" author J. M. Barrie.

The play was called "Quality Street".

And the tins are collectibles.

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A Christmas-related appearance of the sweets was mostly coincidental, though the empty tin from one year did often appear at the next, full of home-made mince pies or even an entire Christmas cake.

Large, fairly airtight tins are useful that way, especially at trapping the spirituous exhalations of cakes made in mid-September and "fed" weekly thereafter with spoonfuls of brandy, or whiskey, or rum (sometimes all three, alternated) until it was time for the armour-plating of marzipan and royal icing to go on.

It used to be a common belief at home that opening the tin containing an un-iced cake near a naked flame at any time after mid-November was more than the opener's eyebrows were worth.

The eyebrow thing never happened, because it was one of those family fables, but I do remember bringing one such Quality Street tin down to Anne McCaffrey's house when I'd been invited to stay.

It contained not a Christmas cake but one of Mum's famed Chocolate Gateaux of Doom (my name for it, not hers), made specially for that visit and whose recipe, what with the plain-chocolate sponge cake and the apricot-cream filling and the double-chocolate ganache icing, required most of a bottle of cognac.

Since this cake didn't have the sealant-and-spackle cladding of marzipan and royal icing, it also required refrigeration to "keep it calm". My car didn't even have air conditioning, so in transit the cake got quite, er, excitable.

How excitable, we soon found out.

When Annie's stable manager sauntered over and popped the lid, expecting to find some nice Quality Street choccies, she was instead hit in the face by a near-visible cloud of booze vapour (a gin-ie, perhaps, even though no gin was involved) and reeled back with a cry of "Jaysuz, does yer mother own a feckin' distillery?"

Had she been smoking one of her habitual thin roll-ups at the time, our family fable might have been proved true after all...

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[travelling-my-little-pony]

Confetti has found a slice of Christmas cake.

In St Eustachius church, in Tavistock, in Devon, England.

[bloggingboutburgers]

Btw- happy holidays people! Sorry I haven't been around a lot lately TwT I'll try to do better again soon... But yeah, good luck with any occasional usual family bullshit, those dumb Hallmark movies in alloland, loneliness for those who feel lonely... If anything at all I hope you can have tasty food and nice moments during those times^^

[yoooko-o]

24/12/2024

今年のクリスマスケーキは会社から頂きました🎂🎄

ケーキの原材料が取引先のものを使っているという、この種類のケーキになったそうですが、普段ホールケーキを買うこともないのでありがたく頂きました🙏

8種類のアソートケーキです🎂

この日は母とピスタチオ、チョコ、チーズケーキをさらに半分に分けて食べました😋

そして、今日は嬉しいことに、ダメ元で応募した講演会の招待券が当たりました🎫👀✨

来月の平日ですが、せっかくなので有給をもらって行って来るつもりです😊

明日、25日がクリスマス本番ではありますが、 皆様も良いクリスマスを🎄🌟

[moodboard-d]

[pinkfairiesteaparty]

[world-of-yana]

[amf-studios]

Masshirocake offers you Christmas cake, do you accept?

Petty-cakes really grown on me lately, and she had a Christmas variant! So I had to draw it.

Especially appropriate for today since I tried my hand at a little baking~!

It is messy, but I made it. :3

I hope you enjoy(the art, not the cake. XP) and if ya do, commissions are open! Details on my tumblr page

[timeofdeathnote]

where can I buy a Santa Gojo cake

[smoonship]

Christmas cake!!!

have you seen the newsletter??? fr so cuuute :P

can you believe it guys? christmas! just a week away. christmas is in a week! wow.