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According to Wikipedia, Christmas cake is an English
that began as plum porridge. The plums later gave way to
, sultanas, orange rind and other dried
. The fruit is often soaked in rum or brandy. It is quite
for the fruity loaf part of the cake to be covered in a
of marzipan, and then the top and sides to be coated in icing. The icing is a hardened, white sugar coating that can be over a centimetre
. The top of the cake is usually decorated with an
of Christmassy symbols like fir trees or snowmen and women. Christmas cakes vary around the world. In Sri Lanka, they are
of treacle and spices. In Japan, they are
sponge cakes with whipped
and strawberries.
