It is made luxurious for the festive season by adding a layer of marzipan on top, and then covered by either royal icing or fondant. Fruitcake has long been the traditional sweet served at weddings, parcelled out in small pieces as a take-home gift for guests single girls place it under their pillow in hopes of dreaming about their future husbands. Try it: Luxury fruitcake. The British have many delicious and charmingly-named steamed puddings in their culinary archives, from Spotted Dick to Sticky Toffee.
All are cooked in a covered bowls set over a pot of simmering water. Christmas pudding is made with suet instead of butter, which gives it an irreplaceably rich, slightly mysterious flavour, and a crumbly, moist texture. Typically there is brandy in the batter as well, but no spices. Brandy is also used to set the pudding alight once unmoulded for a dramatic, festive presentation.
Like Christmas cake, Christmas pudding is also best made in advance traditionally on Stir-Up Sunday, the last Sunday before Advent and kept at room temperature to blend and boost the flavours. A Christmas cake is a rich cake containing dried fruits and usually having a covering with icing and marzipan. Sometimes, we also call it a fruitcake. Christmas cakes contain a lot of fruits, sugar, and brandy or rum. A traditional English cake has currants, sultanas, and raisins, which have soaked in rum or brandy.
This recipe also calls for ingredients like candied peel, candied cherries, and spices like cinnamon, and nutmeg. Christmas cakes with icing or marzipan coverings are usually decorated with fir trees, Father Christmas, models of houses, etc.
Different countries or cultures have different variations for Christmas cake. For example, Whisky Dundee is the Scottish variation of Christmas cake.
The main part is preparing all the ingredients. Once, these are assembled, you have to bake it long and slow. Moreover, Christmas cake is usually made some time before Christmas.
This is the general method to make Christmas pudding. However, many cooks have their own recipes for Christmas puddings; some of these are handed down the family through generations. Many people make Christmas pudding at least a month before Christmas. It can be even made twelve months prior; the high alcohol content in the pudding prevents it from spoiling. According to tradition, some people then hang the pudding in a cloth and keep it in a dry place until the holiday meal.
When serving, we often pour brandy over the pudding and then set on flame. If we turn off the lights in the room, everyone can see the flame. Most people serve Christmas pudding with custard or hard sauce. There are many customs and traditions associated with Christmas pudding. Some people hide a silver coin inside the pudding; this coin brings luck to the person who finds it when eating the pudding. A fruit cake is a cake containing dried or candied fruits, nuts and spices while a Christmas pudding is a steamed suet pudding.
Therefore, this is the key difference between fruit cake and Christmas pudding. Another difference between fruit cake and Christmas cake is their ingredients. While both contain dried fruits and nuts, fruit cake contains butter to hold them together, and Christmas pudding contains eggs and suet.
Moreover, the cooking method we use for fruit cakes is baking whereas the cooking method we use for Christmas pudding is steaming.
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