Christmas cake recipes
No Christmas is complete without a wonderful classic Christmas cake.
This collection of our best recipes includes the hugely popular rich fruit cake by Mary Berry – get ready for Stir up Sunday!
And when it comes to decorating, see our page on 10 ways to decorate a Christmas cake.
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Chocolate orange recipes
Chocolate orange cake with Cointreau drizzle
Looking for a twist on the traditional Christmas cake. Step forward this chocolate orange cake...

Christmas cake recipes
Mini Dundee cakes
These light, crumbly mini Dundee cakes with burnished hazelnut marzipan crown give the classic Christmas...

Christmas baking recipes
Mince pie loaf cake with streusel filling
This mince pie streusel loaf cake makes an alternative Christmas cake with a hidden surprise...

Christmas cake recipes
Dundee cake
A Dundee cake makes a lighter take on the traditional Christmas cake. It’s a less...

Delia Smith recipes
Delia’s classic Christmas cake
Dark, moist, very rich with more fruit than cake – it’s the nation’s favourite recipe,...

Christmas cake recipes
Chocolate gingerbread Christmas cake
Celebrated chocolatier Paul A Young has given the gift of chocolate for Christmas with this...

Christmas cake recipes
Quick Christmas cake
Christmas cakes usually take about three hours to cook, but our quick Christmas cake recipe...

Christmas baking recipes
Spiced rum butter mincemeat cake
Make our spiced rum butter mincemeat first to fill your mince pies, then use up...

Christmas cake recipes
Whisky, fig and ginger Christmas cake
“This cake is on the lighter side, but bursting with boozy soaked fruit (whisky is...

Christmas cake recipes
Bettys traditional Christmas cake
Try a Christmas cake recipe made with wonderful fruits, spices and sherry, from Bettys – the...

Christmas cake recipes
Saffron and pistachio Christmas cake
Chetna Makan’s alternative Christmas cake recipe, made with saffron and pistachio, is lighter than the...

Celebration cake recipes
Royal icing
Mima Sinclair shares her quick and easy royal icing recipe – perfect for icing your...

Christmas baking recipes
Caribbean black cake
Shivi Ramoutar’s rum-soaked festive fruit cake is a popular recipe in the Caribbean at Christmas...

Christmas cake recipes
Marsala-soaked fruit cake
This Christmas cake, with sweet masala-soaked figs, cherries, currants and sultanas, is lighter than a...

Christmas cake recipes
Mary Berry’s rich fruit Christmas cake
Mary Berry’s rich traditional Christmas cake recipe is filled to the brim with fruit, as...

Christmas cake recipes
Step-by-step winter wonderland cake
Whether you make your Christmas cake, marzipan and royal icing by hand or buy everything...

Christmas baking recipes
Sloe gin and walnut fruit cake
Combine the warming flavours of sloe gin with walnuts, and all of the spices reminiscent...

Christmas cake recipes
Traditional Christmas cake
Make this traditional recipe from Richard Bertinet a month before Christmas, then feed it once...

Christmas cake recipes
Snowflake Christmas cake
A beautiful white Christmas cake recipe, covered in homemade royal icing and marzipan then adorned...

Christmas cake recipes
Drambuie and orange Christmas cake
Cooking this Christmas cake recipe early allows you to give it a few more doses...

Christmas cake recipes
Mini Caribbean Christmas cakes
This recipe makes four rich, mini Christmas cakes, you can give three away as edible...

Christmas cake recipes
Gluten-free rich fruit cake
Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne’s rich gluten-free fruit cake recipe means no one has to miss out at...

Christmas cake recipes
Classic Christmas cake
This classic Christmas cake recipe is a real showstopper and can be made weeks in...

Exotic fruit and spice cake
This exotic fruit and spice cake takes a while to make – but it’s really...