Who here loves Christmas Cake?

I don't mean Christmas Pudding, but cake! I looooooooooove it. I love traditional spice fruit cake. Me and my Mum make them every year together, she usually does all the booze stuff and I like to decorate at the end of it. I hate that I can't eat it straight away though and have to wait til Christmas. Wah!

I think it's a very British thing, the ol' classic Christmas cake! Ours was always a bit more like a Scottish Whisky Dundee though. I think I'll probably make mine closer to Christmas than I would at home, I don't know how the Australian heat would affect the cake if I were to make it weeks in advance so I might just do it 10 days before. I think the taste will suffer a little bit honestly I like the cake without all the booze anyway sooo

This year I'm hoping to make a few to give away as gifts, although it seems they really divide people. People either love them or hate them. I'm proudly waving the flag of 'LOVING IT'

If you're not a Christmas Cake lover, what do you have instead? Do you prefer the Christmas Pudding or do you stay away from them altogether? What is the 'Christmas Cake' of your country?