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Christmas Fruit Cake

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A world renowned classic...... The perfect amalgamation of flour , butter, aromatics , raisins , nuts & rum..... Sugar, Spice & everything nice..... Its literally the recipe of  the Power puff girls sans the chemical X....... Simply put It is one of the most delicious & Christmas-sy things I have ever had the opportunity to taste.  I am of course talking ( and salivating ) about the Christmas Fruit Cake. My mother is a home baker. Which means our home smells like a warm bakery every day to begin with . But during the time between The end of November and the beginning of January (coincidentally our busiest time of the year ) the house literally turns into heaven. The ovens are running overtime to produce batch after batch of Christmas cakes ,whose sweet and aromatic smell fills up the entire house. It can be round or rectangular but it tastes just the same , the thin layer of hard outer crust with a chewy and soft inside . Each bite a...