This year it will be just me & my mum together at Christmas.
She's in her 80s, in poor health & almost house bound.
So Christmas won't really be much a special day for us.
However, she really likes Christmas cake.
Growing up she always made her own from the Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook. It was a rich, moist fruit cake with the right amount marzipan & royal icing.
More recently she has bought a small cake (more like a slab) from a local coffee shop. But this shop has closed down.
I'd like to find a Christmas cake that is similar to the ones she used to make.
It needs to be fruity & moist. Dark fruit cake, almost Christmas pudding like, not the pale, dry crumbly cake that most shops seem to sell now.
I only need enough for us to have a couple of slices each over a few days. So making one isn't an option.
Any ideas?
Thanks