Non-fruit Christmas cake

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I always make a 'normal' Christmas cake, round about now, but lately dried fruit has been disagreeing with me, so I'm looking for alternatives. So what special cake could I make for Christmas that doesn't have currants, sultanas or raisins. Everything else is fine and we love cherries.

A chocolate log?

Make a cherry cake and ice/decorate it, it won't keep long like a rich fruit cake but will look just as festive. Use the roll out fondant type icing.

Ooooh, cherry and almond . Soak the cherries in Amaretto and do a Maderia Cake sponge so it's denser than a sponge cake.

And of course a Chocolate cake

Or what about making a Stollen but without the dried fruit?
Few things as good for getting rid of pre-Christmas angst than kneading a nice sweet bread dough (not a sweetbread ,that's entirely different)

Gingerbread cake with orange icing

I always find this quite christmassy :)

Mmmmm I will do a chocolate log and a cherry cake I think, and the gingerbread one looks good too. Good job I've got time to think about it .
Can't do any with nuts in, ds2 is allergic.
Thanks for all your replies.

You could watch GBBO on Tuesday and see if you fancy making a gingerbread house.

I tried making one of those last year, it didn't work out very well, I had to prop it up with lots of condiments. At least I tried. I will watch the GBBO tomorrow though to see where I went wrong.

You will need to make the cherry cake mixture rather stiff to prevent the cherries sinking to the bottom, it usually has ground almonds in to help prevent this.