A “secret” family recipe, baked in Gareth’s grandmother’s cake tin and left to mature for a few weeks prior to decoration (liberally doused with cognac every few days), this traditional Christmas cake was first wrapped in homemade marzipan then covered with thick royal icing.  The tree was a runout made from coloured royal icing and decorated with tiny stars and piped-on tinsel, topped with a marzipan star.

Delicious!