If You Can't Stand the Heat...

... get out of the kitchen, because your probably in my way anyway. I have a LOT to do!

The Christmas Cakes have started. I've done my research, found the recipe I like, and have dispatched my trust husband to retrieve the ingredients. He has an extensive list!

In order to make my cakes, I reckon four at a time I can cook. They'll have cooking times of nearly 5 hours per set of four, there will be four different cooking sessions. I think I'd better schedule in an oven clean after that!

Kath, if you are reading this I PROMISE I AM NOT GOING TO BE EATING ANY OF THESE CAKES!

I needed a calculator just to work out the quantities. I must knock off after this to tidy up and make sure I have enough room for the ingredients, before anything else.

13lb Currants

6 1/2 lb Sultanas

6 1/2 lb Raisins

2 lb Glace Cherries

2 lb mixed candied peel

A bottle of rum/sherry, something like that

6 1/2 lb Plain Flour

2 jars of nutmeg

2 jars of ground mixed spice

6 1/2 lb Butter

6 1/2 lb brown sugar

52 eggs

2 lb flaked/chopped almonds

1 tin of black treacle or molasses

13 lemons

13 oranges

1 bag of whole almonds

Crikey!

This is now an urgent appeal. I need cake tins. Not the sort you cook them in, the sort you store them in. Roses tins or biscuit tins, that sort of thing. I had loads after Christmas but they've all been given away as presents. Either that or some good ideas for how else to present them?