Christmas 2019 is here and if you say you are not excited for all the amazing festive food, you are surely lying! A typical Christmas feast includes turkey just like Thanksgiving, with stuffing and mashed potatoes. Gravy, cranberry sauce, and vegetables are there. You have your chicken roast beef, or ham, etc for the main course. However, Christmas is absolutely incomplete if you do not have cake or pies. Dessert for example pumpkin or apple pie, raisin pudding, Christmas pudding, fruitcake, are some of the popular choices. So if this Christmas, you don't want to purchase cakes and other kinds of dessert from the bakery and make some on your own at home, here are a few Christmas cake recipes that you might love.

While most people make Rum & Raisin cakes on Christmas, many people also like the plum cake, fruit and nut and also Swiss Chocolate cake.  Caramel is another favourite of people. Carrot and Banana cake are very popular during Christmas.

Rum & Raisin Cake

While it may seem pretty easy like all you have to do is soak some raisins in rum, overnight add powder sugar with cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cardamom in the batter and also add mix butter and powdered sugar, eggs etc. But it is not that easy. Here's how to make Rum & Raisin cake at home

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Plum Cake

This delicious cake recipe is loaded with dry fruits and enhanced with the goodness of spices. Here's the perfect recipe of this eggless plum cake/ fruit cake for this Christmas season.

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Santa Cake for Christmas

This cake in the shape of Santa is exactly what you want to celebrate the Holiday season. While the frosting may seem difficult, simple tricks can actually make it easy.

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Go ahead and try out all these recipes at home. If you want to make these recipes healthier, use less carb-laden alternatives for the ingredients mentioned above. You can try out less fattening cream products or simple add healthier sugar alternatives.

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