Well it's Christmas Eve and the day we've all been waiting for is almost here so what better way to celebrate this festive season than with a classic Nigella recipe. I've been making one of Nigella's recipes for the past few Christmases so I'm really pleased that this month's Forever Nigella has a Christmas theme as I'd always wanted to participate but never got round to it. Coincidentally, I was flipping through my beloved copy of Nigella Christmas when I saw the tweet announcement about this challenge. This challenge is hosted by Sarah from Maison Cupcake and there is still time to enter as the deadline is 31st December 2011.
I debated about what to make and finally settled on this spruced up spice cake as I really wanted to use my new snowflake moulds. I don't have the spectacular bundt tin that Nigella has but I think the snowflakes and stars work well. The recipe can be found on her website here. I made the spiced version and modified the spices slightly by adding 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg and 1/2 teaspoon of ground ginger. I halved the recipe which yielded 6 snowflakes and 3 stars of the size shown. The cake is delightfully moist and the spices are present but not overpowering. I hope everyone will enjoy it on Christmas Day.
I'd like to take this opportunity to wish everyone best wishes for the festive season. See you soon - I'll be back before New Year :)
HAPPY CHRISTMAS !!
Mr Snowman and Santa would also like to wish you Merry Christmas! :) 
Sprinkling of icing sugar
They look lovely and the pictures are so Christmassy. Merry Christmas. x
ReplyDeleteThe cakes look so cute! Love how they look. :) Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteWow.. your cakelook soo awesome & soo christmassy. I wish you & your family a great happy Christmas ^^
ReplyDeleteI just love Nigella and these cakes look lovely and delicious! Perfect for the holidays! Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteThese look so Christmassy and pretty! Have a lovely Christmas!
ReplyDeleteLove the shape of your holiday cakes!
ReplyDeleteSusan - thanks, merry Christmas to you too x
ReplyDeleteAkika - Merry Christmas! :)
Lostinausten - thanks and you too :)
Amy - thanks, Nigella rocks! Merry Christmas to you too!
MissCakeBaker - thanks, hope you have a lovely Christmas too!
yummychunklet - thanks, i'm loving it too :)
Wonderful looking cakes - I love those moulds too... so festive and pretty :) Have a wonderful Christmas! :)
ReplyDeleteLove Nigella :) And i love the pics and they cakes are so tiny and cute~ i've never had spruce cake hehe
ReplyDeleteMerry Xmas :D
Charles - thanks! they are great moulds. Happy Christmas too :)
ReplyDeleteDaisy - Another Nigella fan :) Merry Christmas too :)
Nice blog, I hope you are enjoying the holidays. Love the photos! Merry Christmas.
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Hmm these look and sound so delicious, I love those little snowflake moulds - so cute! Happy Christmas to you and your family too, hope you have a wonderful day x
ReplyDeleteWhat lovely cookies, I'm tempted to enter the blog hop too! I hope you had a lovely Christmas :)
ReplyDeletelovely cake and very pretty molds
ReplyDeleteJust tututiny - Thanks! Merry Christmas to you too. Will drop by soon.
ReplyDeleteCupcake Crazy Gem - thanks, hope you had a wonderful Christmas x
Xinmei - thanks, do join in the bloghop, the more the merrier :)
Rebecca - thanks :)
These look beautiful! I've never seen snowflake-shaped cakes before, what a great mould for cakes! Hope you had a great Christmas :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing ~ this sounds like an absolutely delicious
ReplyDeleteHazel - Thanks! I really love the snowflake moulds :) Hope you had a good Christmas too.
ReplyDeleteLoveforfood - glad you like it, hope you had a good Christmas :)
Loving the mini version of this cake, pretty genius idea there which I may have to steal for next year ;0)
ReplyDeleteThese look so pretty. I bet they were very much enjoyed on Christmas Day. Mini is a great way to go.
ReplyDeleteA belated reply but finally I am getting around to all the FN entries - thank you so much for taking part!
ReplyDeleteSuch a pretty tin, I must look out for one of those, cakes sprinkled with icing sugar always look especially festive.
Happy New Year!
Sarah - thank you for hosting! It was fun to participate. Happy New Year to you too :)
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