It comes round every year Christmas and you are faced with that dilemma, buy or make your own Christmas cake, it would be much more satisfying to bake you own and decorate at, but busy mums sometimes just don’t have the time.
Buying pre-made Christmas cakes
Buying a Christmas cake already made from your local supermarket is probably the easiest and quickest option. Although the choice is limited and the cakes small where more time is spent on the packaging rather than the cake, and it is always worth checking the ingredients list for E numbers and shelf live preserving additions as they are not usually made fresh.
Buying from a baker or specialist cake shop such as Leigh Cakes gives you more control over design and ingredients and are made fresh on the premises not in some where house somewhere up the M1
Pros and cons
- Saves you time
- Cheap
- Hidden ingredients
- Lack of choice
Baking your own Christmas Cake
Baking and decorating your own Christmas cake is not difficult when following cook book recipes or old family ones, and you can tailor your Christmas cake to fit your dietary needs, and although baking and decorating your own cake takes more time it does give you satisfaction and if your children help you will have a cake to remember.
Pros and cons
- Takes time
- Makes a mess
- Not cheap
- Can control the ingredients
- Satisfaction
Whilst local shops will have most ingredients to bake your Christmas cake, specialist cake shops such as Leigh Cakes will carry marzipan's, icing ribbons and Christmas decorations for you to make that perfect cake
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