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My show stopper

The Great British Bake Off has nothing to do with it.  This is the time of year when my mind always turns towards making the Christmas cake.  Despite being a very keen cook, I am not a good baker, but I do enjoy making the cake in October and tucking it away, waiting to smugly produce it at Christmas time!  I always use a really good recipe of Joseline Dimbleby's.  It doesn't need icing, which is just as well as no-one in my family like marzipan.   I love it, but happy to go without, because this is always a really good cake, choc full of dried fruits and nuts! 

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