I agree. Marion is a lovely, lovely person. It makes me happy just to “hang out” with her, particularly in my painful medical situation. God bless her.
Well it’s in the oven smelling delicious, my first home baked Christmas cake, at the age of 76🥳Looking forward to the icing and marzipan event when it’s time, Thanks for the recipe Marion🕊
Mmm, this screams to me of my childhood memories! Marion, you are an absolute natural at presenting, teaching and encouraging everyone to have a go. I love all your videos!! ❤
I try my best Alison.. I couldn't believe how long it took me to get everything weighed out and ready for the filming! Normally I'm just weighing out as I go...
There are not many people who would share their treasured Christmas cake or Pudding recipes. Thank you so much for taking us into your kitchen while you made this lovely cake. I am sure it will taste delicious. xx
Hmm, I can almost smell and taste it. But what I absolutely love about your videos is how much you've blossomed into this confident host and tutor without ever losing your unique charm. ❤😊
Thank you. I have been looking for a recipe that matches the one I used to make with my mum when I was little. The recipe was lost when she died. We also had the tradition of everyone in house having a stir (3 times round the bowl) and make a wish. This is the closest recipe to what I remember. Thank you so much!
It's such a shame your mum's recipe was lost! This recipe was given to me by a lady I worked with when I was first married. It's so good and although I've tweaked it over the years it's still essentially the same recipe. I've released it into the wild now so it can go onwards 😊
So lovely being in your kitchen with you Marion, it takes me back to being a child when there was always something going on in the kitchen at home. Thank you x
Hi Marion, I used to have a round tin and a square cake tin exactly like yours, they belonged to my mother in law. I have passed them onto my eldest daughter now she loves cooking. I always made my Christmas cake to her recipe too. Your cake looks and sounds wonderful. Thank you so much for taking us along with you. love Bella xx
Brilliant Marion, I am 71 & have never baked a xmas cake in my life, I'm 71 & only in the past few years have I come to like them ( we always buy one ) ....I am going to take the plunge & will think of you at xmas,when we're all tucking in yummo.You're a treasure TFS XXXX Love & hugs xxx 🤗🤗🤗
This sounds so delicious and looks scrumptious Marion. 😊❤ Nothing like the nightmare fruitcakes of my childhood, that arrived under the tree at our house every year, in their rounded tins. My mother used them as doorstops to prop the front door open. She didn't make them or like them. They were made by some relative I can't recall. Every year we cringed at yet another fruitcake arrival, and prayed we didn't have to eat it. Mom loved the tins and used them for notions storage. After the first one, she gave up trying to get us to eat it, and so our chickens ate it instead. You have just abolished a childhood nightmare and replaced it with delight! Thank you! 😅 😊 ❤
Thanks for the recipe. I visit Marion’s World often because it is such a beautiful creative place and now I know the aroma is heavenly scented with fresh baked fruit cake. Piece, Linda
@@marionsworld24 Well, the aroma of it baking was in itself well worth it!! It's all wrapped up now and waiting ... looking forward to tasting it in a month's time.
Hello Marion. You just can't beat a fabulous homemade Christmas cake. I have already made 6 two pound Christmas loaves to distribute to people. Your cake looks brilliant and I bet the aroma in your home is delicious. Thanks for sharing❤
Dearest Marion😊,l do love how you say" it's a very forgiving recipe "!Reminds me of my grandmamas recipe! I do a "batch" around sept and put the dried fruit in the alcohol overnight to steep.Make the family ones and a set of smaller ones(for the oldies/ singletons- still use the charms wrapped in greaseproof paper- with the appropriate warnings!) People give me " gentle hints"😊😅 for them,lol! I decorate the smaller ones with glace fruit and nuts,(less complicated). Keep saying that it'll be the last lot l'll do but have done them again this year.Amazing how many people show up as they come out of the oven! Made some little recipe books to go with this time so they can all do for themselves when I can't any more! Thankyou for sharing yours today,best wishes to all,J.I.M.K. Mrs, (D's Mother). Brisbane, Australia 🙏 ❤ 🇦🇺 😀 🪃
Wonderful message thank you! I have less people to give them too but I also make cakes to give as presents. I know who likes them...☺️ In our family the paper wrapped sixpences go in the Christmas pudding. What fun! I think it's great that you've added the little recipe book with your gifted cake. It's such a shame when old recipes are lost... Well I've just released mine into the world and it can go onwards from there, being adapted and changed as recipes are when handed down 😊
I was happy to see you in your apron today Marion 😊 Mum , always made the cake and she used to soak the fruit over night, and I do believe she would feed it too. When my Dad retired he picked her up from work and said he had done something and she might be cross, those ingredients could be quite a lot to pay out, he had made the Christmas cake 🤗 she said it was the best Christmas cake she had ever eaten 😊 so anyone including me, that has never made one, should have a go 🥮 I rember santa and the reindeer were always ontop with a little snowman too. ⛄️ I'm really looking forward to your advent vlog this year. It was something to look forward to every day last year ❤ and was wonderful I could almost smell it too when you held it up, hehe 😋🍄🌈
Yes, years ago when I was first married it seemed quite expensive to buy all the dried fruit. Plus having the alcohol too made it a definite luxury. My Mam used to put a Santa halfway down the chimney on hers. Plus some fir trees too.
@marionsworld24 yes definitely an expensive time all round. , those are happy childhood memories, it wasn't really just about presents. Even as a young child, we saw what went into making a Christmas special and magical 🫠✨️🌟
😋 I can smell it from here. I used to make Christmas cake but there is not enough of us to eat it now. I know it lasts and lasts. I had some left at Easter. You are generous to share your recipe and I can see from some of the replies a lot of people will be giving it ago. They won’t be disappointed when they come to eat, it looks delicious and again you presented it so you made it nice and easy to follow. As I’ve said before you are a star. Thank you for just being you.
I live in Canada and can smell your cake baking from here! My mother always baked a fruitcake for Christmas and sometimes there was a bit of a competition with her friends as to whose cake was the most flavorful and moist. (lol).
Watching you make this yummy cake reminds me of being a youngster, standing in the kitchen looking on in awe as my mum made her yearly puddings & christmas cake. And then years later sneaking in a cheeky extra splash of brandy when she wasn't looking! 😆
As a child I loved helping mum make the Christmas cake but through time I found out I had a fruit and nut allergy. So now I make a carrot cake for Christmas. The top can still be decorated but I still miss the fruit cake and Christmas pudding. Take care Marion. =-)
I’ve not made a Christmas cake for 4 years, since I moved to Italy, however, when I went home recently , I stocked up on things I can’t get here….treacle, golden syrup, proper mixed fruit and plump glacé cherries. It’s been in the oven now for the first hour and a half and the smell is gorgeous. I used an orange and a lemon straight from the tree, and added a pinch of salt. Can’t wait to see it when it comes out. Just wish I’d bought marzipan …..
Two weeks on & NOW I've finally put it in the oven!! 😅 The mixture came out wonderfully even though I left out the peel due to family requests! Smells delicious cooking. Thanks Marion x
I am late too Marion, but this lovely Christmas cake recipe video was making my mouth water. Love the versatility of the different basic ingredients, also how the wet, dry, sugar and butter mixes easily combine at the final stage. Definitely going to bake one for Christmas to your recipe, thank you ♥
Thank you Marion. It was a pleasure sitting through your entire clear instruction for your cake recipe. Do not have all the liquor but will need to adjust. You are a wonderful teacher. Thanks up’s 🙏❤️👍🏽🎄
Oh, you have inspired me to make a Christmas cake. My recipe is very similar to yours. I love how you sub out the fruits. Haven't made a Christmas cake for about 8 years. I will look at making a half cake. Yum yum yum!!!!!!! Thank you, Marion
That was a great recipe, thank you! You're a natural in the kitchen. You mentioned that you're doing the advent diary again yay! 🎉 Can I ask that your stem ginger preserve be considered? Thanks again my lovely! ❤
I feel the same way. You feel like family and friend. You've been an inspiration and excellent teacher for this craft. Your insight on so many things inspires me to try anything and see how it fits. So, thank you dear Marion for your channel.
I’m so happy 🤗😄, I made mine today - I have never baked one before, and it looks perfect and smells delicious. Thank you Marion for the inspiration and recipe🫶🏻❤️💗🥰🎄
When I was small, in The Philippines, I long for this cake! We buy them from the stores!!I never knew how to make it, but, now I have your recipe, and I'll be doing this each Christmas!!! Thanks for sharing your recipe and everything! love, Cleo
We used to bake lots of cookies in my childhood in Germany. Always the best ingredients like real butter. They were very good! Now I bake with my German friends over here in the USA. But the cookies always turn out different because we kind of " wing it"...😂 Your cake recipe sounds delicious!!! ❤💐 🙋♀️ Jutta/USA
Thank you Marion for your video and sharing this Christmas cake recipe with us. I remember making one years ago at school in domestic science thAt had to be fed and they were all lined up in the cupboards with our names on. Forever it seemed 😂 This recipe is more like the one my mum used in that the alcohol was baked in the cake at the start and always perfect. I loved licking the bowl.happy days.
Yum!! I can smell it from here Marion. I will give your recipe a go. Looks delicious. I use my mum's handwritten recipe for boiled fruitcake but I soak 1kg packet of dried fruit and glacied cherries in half a bottle of brandy for six weeks before boiling and adding other ingredients. This usually makes 3 cakes which I use as gifts. Always a hit.👏♥️🇦🇺
Soaking for 6 weeks! My goodness that sounds lovely but I'd have to use a different alcohol as I don't like the taste of brandy at all. Maybe Cointreau or port though...🤔😊
❤thank you for this, mine is in the oven as I type, first time of making a Christmas cake, always had my mums and it always seemed so complicated, this recipe makes sense, thank you, and yes the house smells so good. We’ll have the cake after the queen ( the king now) with a slice of cheddar and Stilton on Christmas Day, and yes everyone in my family has made a wish x
By you are quick off the mark Kate! I've never had Stilton with the cake. Up here it's usually Wensleydale cheese and I like Cotherstone too...de-licious!
Your Christmas cake looks wonderful Marion. For the 1st time in about 40 years I've decided not to make one! We'll probably have a yule log instead. The fruit cake I made for his birthday in the summer is now being slowly left out for the birds. Having had a large family that have all left home I'm still readjusting our cooking and baking so we don't have too much waste. I find we both have much smaller appetites than we once did.
I know where you're coming from... Mine doesn't get eaten at quickly as there's less of us here but I still enjoy baking and it's part of Christmas for me ☺️
You are a blessing Marion! I’m not making fruit cake this year, but it was fun watching your method. I do the same thing just select the fruits and nuts that I like!
Thank you Marion, I will certainly try this. I’ve never had a lot of success with Christmas cakes. Nowadays my daughter does them, beautifully, but she can’t this year, so this is very timely.
Marion…your joyous cake recipe has just gone into the oven to cook. It’s taken me 3 days to get there because I need to pace my activities to short periods “Pacing Myself” then it doesn’t increase my pain levels too much. Just tasted the bowl scrapings with my husband “what a wonderful depth of flavour” was his comment! Happy Days. Thank you for sharing your recipe. I added up all the fruit and divided to different fruits as well. Crystalline Papaya, pineapple, figs, plums, dates, peaches, pears & different coloured cherries. So a real mix of fruit. I think it should be a great cake. Thank you so much. Your advent videos have been great too. Enjoy your trip to France with Naomi & partner. Maybe you will get to the beautiful thrift fabric shops too … magical!! Kind regards, J
More than welcome. In Baking I always add fruits together of whatever fruits I have & divide up. Always wash all the sugar off in hot water & dry off (stops it sinking). I grew up in Africa & so always enjoy a different mix of fruit! Anything goes well. Give it a try. I get supplies ordered from a catering company too - more choice & beats supermarket hands down. “Bon Voyage Marion” for your trip.
Marion, I love that your recipes are so "common sense" and I want to try this Christmas cake. It won't be long before Christmas now and I can take this along to the family gathering. ❤🎄 Thank you, Louise
I like making fruit cake each year, usually with apple juice rather than alcohol, but I like ALL the fruits in your recipe and am excited to give it a try ❤ What is the reason for making the Christmas cake so far before the holiday? Is it for more time for flavors to blend? I'm interested to know. Thank you for sharing this lovely recipe with us ❤❤❤
I am so glad I found your channel, Marion. I love watching you make anything. Being in the US our fruitcake is really nothing like this and I can't stand it. But, I love dried fruit. It's the dried peels I just can't do. I'm thinking I could actually do this with the other fruits and throw in chopped dates as well and just leave out the peel. My husband loves fruit cake and I might try to surprise him. I'm 60 and never made one. You make it look possible and give me the courage to try! 🥰
Absolutely.. just substitute the weight of peel with any other dried or candied fruit you like. Pineapple works well too, also apricots, prunes... anything really. Dates will bring good moisture and 'toffiness'
Oh my goodness I wish I was there to smell your kitchen, I just love fruit cake and I am the only one in our family 😢 so I have not had good homemade fruit cake in years but thank you for the memories of that taste❤
Getting my shopping list together, excited to get mixing. My sister in law used to send a cake from Canada, it was always more large pieces of fruit than cake, a particular Canadiannrecipe I think,Delish though , this looks equally yummy. Thanks Marion.🥳
I think I've got an old Canadian recipe where the fruit was quite big. It got steamed first like a pudding and then spends ages in the oven as well! I'll have to look that out as I haven't made that one for a while...
Excellent timing! I am going to make mine this week and I usually use a Delia Smith recipe that also doesn't need feeding but this year, I will try yours 😁❤
Oh I hope you like it 😊 I used to make the Creole Christmas cake from the Christmas book as my second cake. I haven't made that one for years! You've reminded me about it now... maybe I'll do that one as well 😅 Happy baking Kathryn 🥄
@marionsworld24 the one I made requires soaking the fruit in the booze for a week before making the cake, I have the recipe written out in my kitchen notebook because (of course) I have tweaked it over the years. I can't remember if it was called a Creole Christmas cake though that rings a bell. Anyway I am definitely making yours this year, though the kids aren't keen on it so I will be eating it into Spring probably 😂 with a piece of Wensleydale on the side, is that a thing in the North East too? Southerners think I am weird. 😁❤️
The alcohol reminds me of the time my mother in-law made chocolate rumballs for Christmas one year. Midway she got distracted by the kids playing in the other room. When she went back to mixing them she forgot she had already added the rum and added more. One bite of her rumballs would take your breath away. No one wanted to eat them, so for years they lived in my freezer. Every once in a while I would take one out and eat it, for a treat, they never lost their zing. 😂
Thanks for the recipe Imade a port and oranje cake this year. I made it in the last week of October. This was a new recipe this year as I have packed my recipe books ready for the move.
Thank you for describing precisely HOW to make the cake, especially when in the oven. I used to make Christmas cakes, dark / light / large / small and they always seemed dry. Now I know why - needs lower temp and longer time.
Oh my goodness, I made your cake about two weeks ago and cut into it today (Christmas Eve) - best fruit cake I have ever made! It's incredible! Thank you - thank you! All the best to you for 2025!
I made my Christmas cake last week , couldn't find my usual recipe, so I took a recipe from the Internet, yours sound delicious, I will put the recipe in my recipe book for next year ❤
Hi Marion, my cake looks and smells wonderful. And that’s in a new tin and a new oven which I hadn’t done any baking in yet! Thank you for your clear video xx
Hi Marion! i sure wish i could smell that lovely cake!! i look forward to this year's Christmas gallery as i loved watching last year. thanks so much for sharing this recipe. linda from california
Fantastic! Such a well prepared baking lesson! I so enjoy everything you share with us. Congrats on creating such a diverse and wonderful channel. I am sure your children are so proud of you. You are amazing and also so kind. ABD
Thank you so much for sharing the recipe. Will surely try this. Watching you bake reminds me of my childhood, when my mum would bake Christmas Stollen and the whole house smelled festive and it was cosy and warm.
Thank you Marion! This was a very nice evening time together with you in your kitchen.😊 I wonder if we have self raising flour in Sweden, never heard of it? Have a nice weekend! ❤ 🍊🍋🌿
Ooo. I haven’t made a Christmas cake since all my boys left home, (I go and eat their’s). I feel I want to make one now I’ve watched this. Maybe I will.
Ohhhhh.... This makes me reeeeally want to make this cake.... I must make a shopping list❤Thank you so much for sharing, Marion. I loved your demonstration - it's so nice to see a cook one can identify with, in a real kitchen, just baking and not a load of showing off❤❤❤
It did feel different trying to make the cake for the camera... I kept having to walk round to alter everything to make sure I was in shot. (And the kitchen had to be tidy!...)
Oh Marion! You could teach the TV celebrity cooks a few things, just make the cake, no faffing! I have never (at 68 ) made a Christmas cake, but I think I will now! But tomorrow I’m going to make some more almond slices 😋😋😋 💖xx
Thank you Marion for the cake recipe! Mine is in the oven. I can't abide raisins, but i used candied xmas fruit. It smells divine! Merry Christmas to you and Naomi!
You are absolutely the nicest person on TH-cam. It’s a joy and a privilege to be invited into your wonderful world and share time with you. 🌺🌺
Wow, that's so kind of you to say, but I'm sure there are lots of lovely people out there!
You are right!
I just have found you lately and not have seen all your videos- you are my daily dose of joy❤️ and a happy weekend to all of you!
I totally agree. Marion is an absolute delight to watch. ❤️❤️❤️
I agree. Marion is a lovely, lovely person. It makes me happy just to “hang out” with her, particularly in my painful medical situation. God bless her.
I love spending time in Marion’s World
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Well it’s in the oven smelling delicious, my first home baked Christmas cake, at the age of 76🥳Looking forward to the icing and marzipan event when it’s time, Thanks for the recipe Marion🕊
Oh my goodness! I'm honoured you're using my recipe for a first time Christmas cake 🥰
@@marionsworld24 It is wrapped up in cupboard, smells delish.
Mmm, this screams to me of my childhood memories! Marion, you are an absolute natural at presenting, teaching and encouraging everyone to have a go. I love all your videos!! ❤
I try my best Alison.. I couldn't believe how long it took me to get everything weighed out and ready for the filming! Normally I'm just weighing out as I go...
There are not many people who would share their treasured Christmas cake or Pudding recipes. Thank you so much for taking us into your kitchen while you made this lovely cake. I am sure it will taste delicious. xx
Marion world... A haven of comfort and joy in a mad world ❤
Hmm, I can almost smell and taste it. But what I absolutely love about your videos is how much you've blossomed into this confident host and tutor without ever losing your unique charm. ❤😊
I'm definitely more at ease with the camera... I suppose that's the practice I've had making videos each week for almost a year and a half!
I agree, Marion seems so poised and confident now, whatever she is showing us. ❤
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Thank you. I have been looking for a recipe that matches the one I used to make with my mum when I was little. The recipe was lost when she died. We also had the tradition of everyone in house having a stir (3 times round the bowl) and make a wish. This is the closest recipe to what I remember. Thank you so much!
It's such a shame your mum's recipe was lost! This recipe was given to me by a lady I worked with when I was first married. It's so good and although I've tweaked it over the years it's still essentially the same recipe. I've released it into the wild now so it can go onwards 😊
So lovely being in your kitchen with you Marion, it takes me back to being a child when there was always something going on in the kitchen at home. Thank you x
Yes that was the way.. especially in the run up to Christmas... Mam was always making something!😊
Hi Marion, I used to have a round tin and a square cake tin exactly like yours, they belonged to my mother in law. I have passed them onto my eldest daughter now she loves cooking. I always made my Christmas cake to her recipe too. Your cake looks and sounds wonderful. Thank you so much for taking us along with you. love Bella xx
Marion, you have to be You Tube's sweetheart !...Great info with the greatest manner ! You are a gift to this platform !
Crikey! I'm taking the compliment thank you 😅
Brilliant Marion, I am 71 & have never baked a xmas cake in my life, I'm 71 & only in the past few years have I come to like them ( we always buy one ) ....I am going to take the plunge & will think of you at xmas,when we're all tucking in yummo.You're a treasure TFS XXXX Love & hugs xxx 🤗🤗🤗
I’m 71! I too, have never baked a Christmas cake in my Life! I might just give this a try just because it’s Marion’s Cake. ❤
@randicolberg1687 Marion just makes us want to do stuff xx Good luck 👍 😉
Oh I'm honoured Pauline. I hope you enjoy making it and eating it too!💕
This sounds so delicious and looks scrumptious Marion. 😊❤ Nothing like the nightmare fruitcakes of my childhood, that arrived under the tree at our house every year, in their rounded tins. My mother used them as doorstops to prop the front door open. She didn't make them or like them. They were made by some relative I can't recall. Every year we cringed at yet another fruitcake arrival, and prayed we didn't have to eat it. Mom loved the tins and used them for notions storage. After the first one, she gave up trying to get us to eat it, and so our chickens ate it instead. You have just abolished a childhood nightmare and replaced it with delight! Thank you! 😅 😊 ❤
Oh dear.. they don't sound very good at all.. Enough to put you off for ever!
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Oh Marion, I can smell it and my tummy’s rumbling. 😊
Thanks for the recipe. I visit Marion’s World often because it is such a beautiful creative place and now I know the aroma is heavenly scented with fresh baked fruit cake. Piece, Linda
I'm off to the supermarket this afternoon and will pick up the necessary ingredients. Thank you for this recipe!
Hope you enjoy it..
@@marionsworld24 Well, the aroma of it baking was in itself well worth it!! It's all wrapped up now and waiting ... looking forward to tasting it in a month's time.
Hello Marion. You just can't beat a fabulous homemade Christmas cake. I have already made 6 two pound Christmas loaves to distribute to people. Your cake looks brilliant and I bet the aroma in your home is delicious. Thanks for sharing❤
It was the best smell all through the house!
Dearest Marion😊,l do love how you say" it's a very forgiving recipe "!Reminds me of my grandmamas recipe! I do a "batch" around sept and put the dried fruit in the alcohol overnight to steep.Make the family ones and a set of smaller ones(for the oldies/ singletons- still use the charms wrapped in greaseproof paper- with the appropriate warnings!) People give me " gentle hints"😊😅 for them,lol! I decorate the smaller ones with glace fruit and nuts,(less complicated). Keep saying that it'll be the last lot l'll do but have done them again this year.Amazing how many people show up as they come out of the oven! Made some little recipe books to go with this time so they can all do for themselves when I can't any more! Thankyou for sharing yours today,best wishes to all,J.I.M.K. Mrs, (D's Mother). Brisbane, Australia 🙏 ❤ 🇦🇺 😀 🪃
Wonderful message thank you!
I have less people to give them too but I also make cakes to give as presents. I know who likes them...☺️
In our family the paper wrapped sixpences go in the Christmas pudding. What fun!
I think it's great that you've added the little recipe book with your gifted cake.
It's such a shame when old recipes are lost...
Well I've just released mine into the world and it can go onwards from there, being adapted and changed as recipes are when handed down 😊
Looks yummy! Thanks for sharing your recipe and how to, Marion. I love the tradition of it.
I was happy to see you in your apron today Marion 😊
Mum , always made the cake and she used to soak the fruit over night, and I do believe she would feed it too. When my Dad retired he picked her up from work and said he had done something and she might be cross, those ingredients could be quite a lot to pay out, he had made the Christmas cake 🤗 she said it was the best Christmas cake she had ever eaten 😊 so anyone including me, that has never made one, should have a go 🥮 I rember santa and the reindeer were always ontop with a little snowman too. ⛄️
I'm really looking forward to your advent vlog this year. It was something to look forward to every day last year ❤ and was wonderful
I could almost smell it too when you held it up, hehe 😋🍄🌈
Yes, years ago when I was first married it seemed quite expensive to buy all the dried fruit. Plus having the alcohol too made it a definite luxury. My Mam used to put a Santa halfway down the chimney on hers. Plus some fir trees too.
@marionsworld24 yes definitely an expensive time all round. , those are happy childhood memories, it wasn't really just about presents. Even as a young child, we saw what went into making a Christmas special and magical 🫠✨️🌟
😋 I can smell it from here. I used to make Christmas cake but there is not enough of us to eat it now. I know it lasts and lasts. I had some left at Easter. You are generous to share your recipe and I can see from some of the replies a lot of people will be giving it ago. They won’t be disappointed when they come to eat, it looks delicious and again you presented it so you made it nice and easy to follow.
As I’ve said before you are a star. Thank you for just being you.
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Such a beautiful cake, I can almost smell it across the Atlantic. You look lovely in your denim penny.
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Thank you very much, Marion! Lovely to hear about your traditions! The cake must be delicious❤
It is!
I live in Canada and can smell your cake baking from here! My mother always baked a fruitcake for Christmas and sometimes there was a bit of a competition with her friends as to whose cake was the most flavorful and moist. (lol).
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That looks so tasty. I swear I could smell that Christmas cake. 😂
I was sending the aroma through the ether!
I put different fruit in every time I make it. Always delicious.
Watching you make this yummy cake reminds me of being a youngster, standing in the kitchen looking on in awe as my mum made her yearly puddings & christmas cake. And then years later sneaking in a cheeky extra splash of brandy when she wasn't looking! 😆
That was naughty Emma ☺️ I wouldn't have dared!
It looks delicious ☺️. You could do cooking too. It would be fun to see what folks eat in England. Thank you Marion ❤️
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As a child I loved helping mum make the Christmas cake but through time I found out I had a fruit and nut allergy. So now I make a carrot cake for Christmas. The top can still be decorated but I still miss the fruit cake and Christmas pudding. Take care Marion. =-)
That recipe sounds amazing. I love watching you do whatever you feel like showing us ❤
Thanks so much 😊
I love your videos. Thank you for sharing your experience.
Mmmmmm, that looks amazing! I might just try it myself. Thank you for sharing your recipe Marion x
You're welcome Jennie.
I’ve not made a Christmas cake for 4 years, since I moved to Italy, however, when I went home recently , I stocked up on things I can’t get here….treacle, golden syrup, proper mixed fruit and plump glacé cherries. It’s been in the oven now for the first hour and a half and the smell is gorgeous. I used an orange and a lemon straight from the tree, and added a pinch of salt. Can’t wait to see it when it comes out. Just wish I’d bought marzipan …..
I'm late with my cake this year. You've perfectly answered my prayers! Thank you, I'll try this this week xx
Two weeks on & NOW I've finally put it in the oven!! 😅 The mixture came out wonderfully even though I left out the peel due to family requests! Smells delicious cooking. Thanks Marion x
I am late too Marion, but this lovely Christmas cake recipe video was making my mouth water. Love the versatility of the different basic ingredients, also how the wet, dry, sugar and butter mixes easily combine at the final stage. Definitely going to bake one for Christmas to your recipe, thank you ♥
Let's just say we’re both fashionably late to the cake baking! That sounds better I think..
Marion, you're so nice to watch!☺ Thank you!
Thank you Marion. It was a pleasure sitting through your entire clear instruction for your cake recipe. Do not have all the liquor but will need to adjust. You are a wonderful teacher. Thanks up’s 🙏❤️👍🏽🎄
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Oh, you have inspired me to make a Christmas cake. My recipe is very similar to yours. I love how you sub out the fruits.
Haven't made a Christmas cake for about 8 years.
I will look at making a half cake.
Yum yum yum!!!!!!!
Thank you, Marion
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I miss my mum's Christmas cake 😢 it looks beautiful Marion ❤
That was a great recipe, thank you! You're a natural in the kitchen. You mentioned that you're doing the advent diary again yay! 🎉 Can I ask that your stem ginger preserve be considered? Thanks again my lovely! ❤
Oh I'll put it on the list thanks for the reminder 😊
I feel the same way. You feel like family and friend. You've been an inspiration and excellent teacher for this craft. Your insight on so many things inspires me to try anything and see how it fits. So, thank you dear Marion for your channel.
You're very welcome. Thank you 💐
Looks delicious
I’m so happy 🤗😄, I made mine today - I have never baked one before, and it looks perfect and smells delicious. Thank you Marion for the inspiration and recipe🫶🏻❤️💗🥰🎄
When I was small, in The Philippines, I long for this cake! We buy them from the stores!!I never knew how to make it, but, now I have your recipe, and I'll be doing this each Christmas!!! Thanks for sharing your recipe and everything! love, Cleo
You're welcome Cleo 😊
We used to bake lots of cookies in my childhood in Germany. Always the best ingredients like real butter. They were very good!
Now I bake with my German friends over here in the USA. But the cookies always turn out different because we kind of " wing it"...😂
Your cake recipe sounds delicious!!!
❤💐 🙋♀️ Jutta/USA
Winging it with recipes is quite often the best way of improving them sometimes 😊
Wow!! It's such a great cake, with everything I like in it. Thanks for showing us how to make it Marion and thanks for sharing the recipe!❤
Thank you Marion for your video and sharing this Christmas cake recipe with us. I remember making one years ago at school in domestic science thAt had to be fed and they were all lined up in the cupboards with our names on. Forever it seemed 😂 This recipe is more like the one my mum used in that the alcohol was baked in the cake at the start and always perfect. I loved licking the bowl.happy days.
Wooden spoons leave the best bowls for clearing out!😅
Yum!! I can smell it from here Marion. I will give your recipe a go. Looks delicious. I use my mum's handwritten recipe for boiled fruitcake but I soak 1kg packet of dried fruit and glacied cherries in half a bottle of brandy for six weeks before boiling and adding other ingredients. This usually makes 3 cakes which I use as gifts. Always a hit.👏♥️🇦🇺
Soaking for 6 weeks! My goodness that sounds lovely but I'd have to use a different alcohol as I don't like the taste of brandy at all. Maybe Cointreau or port though...🤔😊
@marionsworld24 I think any alcohol would work well. My mother-in-law used overproof rum in her cakes. I will start baking next week.♥️
❤thank you for this, mine is in the oven as I type, first time of making a Christmas cake, always had my mums and it always seemed so complicated, this recipe makes sense, thank you, and yes the house smells so good. We’ll have the cake after the queen ( the king now) with a slice of cheddar and Stilton on Christmas Day, and yes everyone in my family has made a wish x
By you are quick off the mark Kate!
I've never had Stilton with the cake. Up here it's usually Wensleydale cheese and I like Cotherstone too...de-licious!
The wonderful world or Marion. 🎄
P.S. My mum still has one of those mixing bowls. That does bring back childhood memories!!!
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I can almost smell it. Thsnks for sharing Marion.
Your Christmas cake looks wonderful Marion. For the 1st time in about 40 years I've decided not to make one! We'll probably have a yule log instead. The fruit cake I made for his birthday in the summer is now being slowly left out for the birds. Having had a large family that have all left home I'm still readjusting our cooking and baking so we don't have too much waste. I find we both have much smaller appetites than we once did.
I know where you're coming from... Mine doesn't get eaten at quickly as there's less of us here but I still enjoy baking and it's part of Christmas for me ☺️
You are a blessing Marion! I’m not making fruit cake this year, but it was fun watching your method. I do the same thing just select the fruits and nuts that I like!
Thank you Marion, I will certainly try this. I’ve never had a lot of success with Christmas cakes. Nowadays my daughter does them, beautifully, but she can’t this year, so this is very timely.
Good luck with it 😊🎄
4am.....saturday....WHAT atreat....my little home now full of the aroma of Christmas cake.....BWs marion.
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Marion…your joyous cake recipe has just gone into the oven to cook. It’s taken me 3 days to get there because I need to pace my activities to short periods “Pacing Myself” then it doesn’t increase my pain levels too much. Just tasted the bowl scrapings with my husband “what a wonderful depth of flavour” was his comment! Happy Days. Thank you for sharing your recipe. I added up all the fruit and divided to different fruits as well. Crystalline Papaya, pineapple, figs, plums, dates, peaches, pears & different coloured cherries. So a real mix of fruit. I think it should be a great cake. Thank you so much. Your advent videos have been great too. Enjoy your trip to France with Naomi & partner. Maybe you will get to the beautiful thrift fabric shops too … magical!! Kind regards, J
My goodness.. that mixture of fruits sounds heavenly! I'm getting ready to come over for a slice..!
More than welcome. In Baking I always add fruits together of whatever fruits I have & divide up. Always wash all the sugar off in hot water & dry off (stops it sinking). I grew up in Africa & so always enjoy a different mix of fruit! Anything goes well. Give it a try. I get supplies ordered from a catering company too - more choice & beats supermarket hands down. “Bon Voyage Marion” for your trip.
I can smell the cake. 😂 As I see you in your kitchen ,prepairing the cake….I think by myself „ Now it’s beginning to be christmas „🫶🏼🇩🇪👋🏼
I know what you mean!
Marion,
I love that your recipes are so "common sense" and I want to try this Christmas cake.
It won't be long before Christmas now and I can take this along to the family gathering. ❤🎄
Thank you,
Louise
You're very welcome Louise
I like making fruit cake each year, usually with apple juice rather than alcohol, but I like ALL the fruits in your recipe and am excited to give it a try ❤
What is the reason for making the Christmas cake so far before the holiday? Is it for more time for flavors to blend? I'm interested to know.
Thank you for sharing this lovely recipe with us ❤❤❤
These are better if they mature over a few weeks usually. I normally bake this sometime in the first half of October.
I am so glad I found your channel, Marion. I love watching you make anything. Being in the US our fruitcake is really nothing like this and I can't stand it. But, I love dried fruit. It's the dried peels I just can't do. I'm thinking I could actually do this with the other fruits and throw in chopped dates as well and just leave out the peel. My husband loves fruit cake and I might try to surprise him. I'm 60 and never made one. You make it look possible and give me the courage to try! 🥰
Absolutely.. just substitute the weight of peel with any other dried or candied fruit you like. Pineapple works well too, also apricots, prunes... anything really. Dates will bring good moisture and 'toffiness'
Oh my goodness I wish I was there to smell your kitchen, I just love fruit cake and I am the only one in our family 😢 so I have not had good homemade fruit cake in years but thank you for the memories of that taste❤
You could try halving the recipe and making yourself a small one as your own treat maybe 🤔
Getting my shopping list together, excited to get mixing. My sister in law used to send a cake from Canada, it was always more large pieces of fruit than cake, a particular Canadiannrecipe I think,Delish though , this looks equally yummy. Thanks Marion.🥳
I think I've got an old Canadian recipe where the fruit was quite big. It got steamed first like a pudding and then spends ages in the oven as well! I'll have to look that out as I haven't made that one for a while...
@@marionsworld24 i think it used to cost a fortune in postage it was so heavy🤣
Excellent timing! I am going to make mine this week and I usually use a Delia Smith recipe that also doesn't need feeding but this year, I will try yours 😁❤
Oh I hope you like it 😊 I used to make the Creole Christmas cake from the Christmas book as my second cake. I haven't made that one for years! You've reminded me about it now... maybe I'll do that one as well 😅
Happy baking Kathryn 🥄
@marionsworld24 the one I made requires soaking the fruit in the booze for a week before making the cake, I have the recipe written out in my kitchen notebook because (of course) I have tweaked it over the years. I can't remember if it was called a Creole Christmas cake though that rings a bell. Anyway I am definitely making yours this year, though the kids aren't keen on it so I will be eating it into Spring probably 😂 with a piece of Wensleydale on the side, is that a thing in the North East too? Southerners think I am weird. 😁❤️
Yummy, Thank you Marion for the recipe...this year I will make a Marion Christmas Cake,💚💛💚
Hope you like it!
Thankyou so much honey ❤❤❤ blessings
The alcohol reminds me of the time my mother in-law made chocolate rumballs for Christmas one year. Midway she got distracted by the kids playing in the other room. When she went back to mixing them she forgot she had already added the rum and added more. One bite of her rumballs would take your breath away. No one wanted to eat them, so for years they lived in my freezer. Every once in a while I would take one out and eat it, for a treat, they never lost their zing. 😂
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Thanks for the recipe Imade a port and oranje cake this year. I made it in the last week of October. This was a new recipe this year as I have packed my recipe books ready for the move.
Good luck with your move 🤞✨️
@kimtownsend838 Thank you.
I've never wanted to make a Christmas cake but I think I could do it now. Thanks
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If I put the teapot on, will you come and visit with a few slices of your cake? Looks yummy. 😊🇨🇦❤
I'm on my way 😊🫖☕
Thank you. I will try it. It's always a joy to join you in your world. Wish you lived next door!
Thank you for describing precisely HOW to make the cake, especially when in the oven. I used to make Christmas cakes, dark / light / large / small and they always seemed dry. Now I know why - needs lower temp and longer time.
Oh my goodness, I made your cake about two weeks ago and cut into it today (Christmas Eve) - best fruit cake I have ever made! It's incredible! Thank you - thank you! All the best to you for 2025!
Merci Marion❤❤❤
Thank you! I’ll bake one and call it Marion’s Christmas Cake❤
🌸tess
I'm honoured ☺️
I've wrote down the recipe so I'll try it later. Please show us your decorating as well please xx
I will 😊
I made my Christmas cake last week , couldn't find my usual recipe, so I took a recipe from the Internet, yours sound delicious, I will put the recipe in my recipe book for next year ❤
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Thank you for sharing your family recipe, Marion. It looks amazing and I wished I were there to clean out that bowl, nummy.
I beat you to it Ann.. I always have to clean the bowl out 😂🥄
Muchos grasies Marion 🙋♀️💞
Hi Marion, my cake looks and smells wonderful. And that’s in a new tin and a new oven which I hadn’t done any baking in yet! Thank you for your clear video xx
Hi Marion! i sure wish i could smell that lovely cake!! i look forward to this year's Christmas gallery as i loved watching last year. thanks so much for sharing this recipe. linda from california
Fantastic! Such a well prepared baking lesson! I so enjoy everything you share with us. Congrats on creating such a diverse and wonderful channel. I am sure your children are so proud of you. You are amazing and also so kind. ABD
Thanks so much Amy 😊
Great news.. Naomi rang yesterday and is managing to come home for a visit on Monday! Yippee!
Thank you so much for sharing the recipe. Will surely try this. Watching you bake reminds me of my childhood, when my mum would bake Christmas Stollen and the whole house smelled festive and it was cosy and warm.
Lovely memories.. lovely food too..
It looks delicious Marion❣️ I do like to add whichever fruit combination I have on hand as well😊 There is none better than home baked 😘😊🌻
I agree 😊
Marion, thank you, thank you. 😊❤
Yummy ! Thanks for sharing this recipe. 🧵🪡♥️
Thank you Marion! This was a very nice evening time together with you in your kitchen.😊 I wonder if we have self raising flour in Sweden, never heard of it?
Have a nice weekend! ❤ 🍊🍋🌿
You can make it by adding 2 tsp baking powder to 8 Oz plain flour 😊
@@marionsworld24 thank you very much ❤
Ooo. I haven’t made a Christmas cake since all my boys left home, (I go and eat their’s). I feel I want to make one now I’ve watched this. Maybe I will.
You should! You could make a square and cut it into portions to give as presents!
Thanks for sharing your Christmas cake recipe Marion. If I get my skates on, I think we'll be enjoying it here by the river this year 😉 🇦🇺
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Oh my i am drooling!
I loved sharing a bit of your Christmas. I'm definitely keeping this recipe for my Christmas
Hope you enjoy
Thank you 🙏🏼 ❤
Ohhhhh.... This makes me reeeeally want to make this cake....
I must make a shopping list❤Thank you so much for sharing, Marion. I loved your demonstration - it's so nice to see a cook one can identify with, in a real kitchen, just baking and not a load of showing off❤❤❤
Isn't that the truth!!
It did feel different trying to make the cake for the camera... I kept having to walk round to alter everything to make sure I was in shot. (And the kitchen had to be tidy!...)
@@marionsworld24 😂well, you did a GREAT job! Honestly, it was so natural🥰💕
Thank you, thank you
I was just wondering if you would do a baking episode. I love this sort of fruit cake. Thank you for posting.
I've got some lovely food recipes coming up in December to do as foodie gifts 😊
Ooh this is a lovely video and something different I will be trying this wonderful cake - thank you so much Marion xx
Oh Marion! You could teach the TV celebrity cooks a few things, just make the cake, no faffing! I have never (at 68 ) made a Christmas cake, but I think I will now! But tomorrow I’m going to make some more almond slices 😋😋😋 💖xx
They're the best ! 😊
So interesting. Thank you for sharing your decades old receipe. I can just image the aroma coming from your kitchen.
Thank you Marion for the cake recipe! Mine is in the oven. I can't abide raisins, but i used candied xmas fruit. It smells divine! Merry Christmas to you and Naomi!
I made your cake today and it looks and smells amazing! The best fruit cake I've ever made. Looking forward to the icing video ❤❤❤
Oh..brilliant Debby. Crikey I'll have to think of some decoration now!
I bought all my ingredients today 🤤🤤