Looking for a Christmas cake recipe that's nutty and cherry-y!

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I'm going to make my first ever Christmas cake this year. I've rushed out and bought a mixed bag of fruit from Waitrose, but I've since read a few threads on here and decided I'd like to feature more nuts (LOTS of nuts) and lots of cherries.

Can anyone recommend me a good recipe please? I'm not a confident baker, so the thought of bunging a load of nuts into a non-nut recipe brings me out in hives :D

BBC food do a festive fruit and nut cake. It’s more of a nut crust on top though.

Jamie Oliver’s Christmas cake recipe lends itself to doubling the nut content to 300g. For the dried fruit prunes and cherries work well.

I use the Delia traditional recipe, I am sure chucking extra nuts and cherries in will be fine, maybe slightly reduce all the other fruit.

I use Mary Berry's Christmas cake recipe, never failed me.

I swap out some of the fruit for extra cherries and nuts. And completely omit the dried mixed peel because not envy!

I've found that Christmas cake recipes can be quite forgiving for ingredient swaps as long as the butter, flour and eggs etc are kept the same.

Mary Berry's classic Christmas cake has loads of cherries. It's easy to make and totally delicious.

If you like an almond flavour , Amarretto to soak the fruit and feed the cake is delicious

I don't like mixed peel either but some finely grated lemon and orange rind is nice , I add with the eggs to make sure its well mixed in

Always used Delia Smiths Christmas cake. It makes a very moist rich cake and you can tweet the fruit to your taste. I hate mixed peal so I substitute with stem ginger. You can add more nuts or just get whole nuts and chop them up roughly. The chopped mixed nuts you buy in bags are tasteless. I use pecans and almonds.
Always use butter as this is the preservative it also gives the cake flavour.
I soak the fruit overnight in rum or whiskey, I find brandy gives a bitter taste unless you use cognac which can be very expensive.

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Thank you lovely people! Some great ideas in here and I love the Amaretto suggestion.

Time to get baking!

We used a Cherry brandy liquer to soak ours last year, instead of plain brandy, it was lush!

I hate mixed peel so I always add extra nuts & cherries to replace that, so maybe you could do the same, or just reduce the other dried fruit & increase the nuts & cherries. Bunging a bit extra in won't matter too much. And you could always decorate with extra nuts rather than marzipan & icing.

How about a Dundee cake? I'm making that this year instead of traditional christmas cake.

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