ut the ingredients for the cakes, except the orange juice, in
mong prepared pans.
Bake cakes about 2 hours. Brush hot
arger ones.
For mini cakes you will need a 12
ish towel and allow the cakes to cool in the pan
repared pans.
Bake the cakes for about 1 3/4
aking these instead of a Christmas cake, make sure to let
br>Brush tops of hot cakes with remaining 1/4 cup
1/2 inch thick) crab cakes if serving as an appetize
supposed to be. Most recipes load up on bread crumbs
he same diameter as the cakes. Arrange marzipan circles on top
small corner.
Pipe Christmas tree shape onto the parchment
alf horizontally so that the cakes are about 1/2 inch
onfectioners' sugar.
NOTE: Since Christmas bread matures and improves in
Scald milk and cool to lukewarm.
Add yeast cakes and 6 cups flour to make batter.
Let rise.
Add sugar, eggs, melted butter and salt.
Cover fruit and nuts with flour and mix well.
Fold into batter with other seasonings and flour.
Knead to a stiff dough. Let rise until double in bulk, then cut and put in pans.
Bake at 350\u00b0.
Makes 5 loaves.
Brush loaves with butter when done and removed from pans.
Cool and wrap.
Crab cakes: Spread the crab meat out
For crab cakes:
In a mixing bowl,
inch thickness. Cut with Christmas cookie cutters and arrange on
uickly, combine ice cream and Christmas pudding in a medium bowl
To prepare the crab cakes, tear up the bread and
eeded.
To prepare crawfish cakes: Thaw crawfish. Strain liquid from