Can any one help me with my Christmas Cake ?
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I made a Christmas cake six weeks ago, soaked the fruits in brandy over night, it was the last bit of brandy I had,so I mixed in a bit of port aswell, then off I went down bargain booze the following week and got a collection of different mini brandy's to feed it with, I have been feeding it every Monday, tonight I got my little brandy selection out the cupboard and the bloke pointed out none of them are brandy's!!!!!! I have 3 dark rums and 2 whisky's, I'm on week 6 so I have used them all at least once,
Is my cake ruined now? will it be too much of a mix? Is it too late to start again?
this is only my second year doing Christmas cake and last year I just stuck to 1 brandy as per recipe
MelissaLee1 TBF its smelling quite nice, was just a bit worried it's guna taste of too many different alcohols, lol, good job we don't drive
JLouM yes abit too merry, lucky we don't drive, cudnt believe it when I realised
Jerseydrew fingers crossed, I may reduce my feeding regime down to every 10days now though, I don't Wana blow people's heads off,lol
You can always go to the shops and buy one and say that you have made it yourself
It will be fine, Soaking a cake with alcohol doesn't particularly impart the flavour/characteristics of that particular alcohol, but rather it just gives it a richness, and keeps it moist.
Happy to send my address so you can send a slice to me for testing 
blacklabrador oooo ok that's reassuring thankyou, my mother's visiting this year, so the pressures on abit, she wanted Chrismas pudding, but I did cake soo is already abit urrghh, dont want give her a crap cake to moan about,lol
Christmas cake and red cheese 
my favourite, one of the good things about Christmas
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