Why oh why

[porridgeisbae]

Have people gone off Christmas cake and Christmas pud?

Both are delicious.

More for me I guess.

Marzipan is absolutely GORGEOUS

@ManateeFair Ooh could I have the recipe please? I would have a lot of glace cherries. Might have a go next year.

Christmas Cake is my number one favourite thing to eat at Christmas.

Really special.

Not like chocolate which I can eat any old time.

Got mine from a baker's this year.
Plus I've bought the cutest decorations to put on top.
Can't wait to try it!

I don't especially like marzipan but I would eat a block of it if it was lying around.

I'd love to see pics of people's decorated cakes/puds. Please post here when you can.

I've bought a little Xmas pudding and a cake for me. Nobody else eats it so sticky toffee pudding for them. No way am I missing out on my pud!

Our 'go to' dessert is a fresh fruit salad with passion fruit and a generous glug of passion fruit liqueur. Manna and so refreshing.

Of course. Round here, it is illegal to serve Christmas cake without a side of Wensleydale.

I like Christmas cake and mince pies, but not Christmas pudding strangely.

Weirdly, I've really gone off chocolate, but will get loads for Christmas. Which I will eat if it's lying around.

But the pudding I'm looking forward to most is Morrisons mango pannacotta. It's my new favourite thing.

Never liked either 🤢you can take the mince pies too, also disgusting 🤷🏻‍♀️

Dried fruit is abhorrent.
It's the work of the devil.

My family in Australia have a traditional recipe for Christmas pudding that is now at least 8 generations old.

It is always served with brandy sauce.

(My family in the UK have sticky toffee pudding, because Christmas pudding isn’t popular, so why have something you don’t like?)

But the pudding I'm looking forward to most is Morrisons mango pannacotta. It's my new favourite thing.

Eew, blancmange? I mean I'd probably eat it but I wouldn't go wild for it.

Never liked christmas cake or pud. Nor mince pies. Or mulled wine. Or christmas scented candles.

But it's a resounding yes to pannacotta, creme brulee and trifle from me. Yum.

My late Dad had Mums pudding between two slices of soft white bread and butter.

A bread and butter pudding sandwich!

Now that they're both gone, Christmas pudding is no more, the rest of us never liked it, or Christmas cake either.

I've not eaten a Christmas pudding since I stopped going to my mum's for Christmas. She used to make the most delicious brandy butter to go with it (we also had custard and pouring cream). She's no longer with us but now I'm wondering where her recipe went (it was actually her mother's recipe).

Mince pies have to be the Asda ones with the iced topping instead of pastry. Yum!

I used to make my own Christmas cake which the whole family enjoyed eating but then MIL started gifting hers so I stopped. Might make that one of my new year resolutions and make my own again.

@Jingleballtheway I do like trifle in general. And tiramisu. Most sweet stuff really. And a lot of savoury stuff.

I love Christmas cake, here is mine. But Christmas pudding I can take or leave. We’re having MIL’s mincemeat/frangipane tart instead, it’s fabulous.

We get our Dundee cake out on NYE and the shortbread.

@maddiemookins16mum Looks awesome, thanks.

Isn't shortbread well boring? I think it's quite bland. Do you dunk it in something?

I have always hated Christmas cake, but I don't really like any cake. Have never had Christmas Pudding as we have Clootie Dumpling and custard at Christmas.

@ShortColdandGrey I'd love not to like any cake. I'd probably be thinner.

Nor me. Quite like the flavour and spices etc but the texture of dried fruit, specifically currants, raisins etc I just can't bear.

Also not a fan of dried fruit.