The beginning of Christmas

Today we baked a Christmas cake using Rhodri's family's recipe. This is a cake that one must bake at least 6 weeks ahead of the intended serving event because one must then "feed" the cake over time. I've always been curious about this, so finally I got the recipe from Nain and we bought the ingredients and went to town!  Our idea is to bake this now, then when Grandma Bucky, Uncle Phil, Libby and kids come to town for Christmas, we can serve the cake and save some for them to take back to Mom/ Grandma Debi.

Here we are about to put the cake into the oven.