{"id":919,"date":"2024-12-23T10:46:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T10:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/?p=919"},"modified":"2024-12-23T10:46:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T10:46:30","slug":"christmas-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/12\/23\/christmas-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The first time I&#8217;ve made my own Christmas Cake&#8230; just because I felt like it! I LOVE fruit cake (not everyone does) and made this 8 inch cake in case anyone in my family fancied it this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"692\" height=\"919\" src=\"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241221_142457088.PORTRAIT-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-922\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241221_142457088.PORTRAIT-1.jpg 692w, http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241221_142457088.PORTRAIT-1-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, I&#8217;ve only tried some cake scraps when I trimmed the top of the cake to flatten it off (and they were goooooood):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"692\" height=\"919\" src=\"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241221_134744782.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-923\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241221_134744782.jpg 692w, http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241221_134744782-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The cake is topped with marzipan and fondant icing (as is standard) but I used a ginger preserve to stick the marzipan to the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241221_135816391.PORTRAIT-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-924\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241221_135816391.PORTRAIT-1024x771.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241221_135816391.PORTRAIT-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241221_135816391.PORTRAIT-768x578.jpg 768w, http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241221_135816391.PORTRAIT.jpg 1221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To finish the cake, I decided to make fondant gonk alongside holly and berries:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"692\" height=\"919\" src=\"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241221_142511692.PORTRAIT-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-926\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241221_142511692.PORTRAIT-1.jpg 692w, http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241221_142511692.PORTRAIT-1-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The gonk is a simple design but I like how effective it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MERRY CHRISTMAS!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I&#8217;ve made my own Christmas Cake&#8230; just because I felt like it! I LOVE fruit cake (not everyone does) and made this 8 inch cake in case anyone in my family fancied it this week. So far, I&#8217;ve only tried some cake scraps when I trimmed the top of the cake to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/12\/23\/christmas-cake\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christmas Cake&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[139,138,8],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cake","tag-christmas-cake","tag-fruit-cake","tag-home-baking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":927,"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}