Grandma Wild’s Make-Your-Own Christmas Fruit Cake Mix

If Stir-Up Sunday has passed you by but you don’t fancy serving a shop-bought Christmas cake, grab Grandma Wild’s Make-Your-Own Christmas Cake Mix. It’ll help you quickly whip up a traditional fruit-packed festive bake, and the result is so tasty that it’s sure to wow all your family and friends. And after all, it’s mostly home-made…

What you get

• 450g mixed fruit – a traditional mix of sultanas, raisins, orange and lemon peel, and glacé cherries.
• 350g cake mix – all the dry ingredients you need, including flour, sugar and mixed spice.
• Full instructions.

Fast and easy to make

Saving you most of the time-consuming weighing and measuring out, this mix takes you from a couple of packets and an empty cake tin to a ready-to-bake cake in minutes. You only need are a few extra ingredients – 2 large eggs, 105g butter and 100ml water – and the easy-to-follow instructions make it simple for even complete cake novices to end up with a guest-impressing bake. And there’s nothing to stop you topping it with marzipan and royal icing, if you’ve got the time and/or the inclination!

About Grandma Wild's

Founded by Annie Wild in Haworth, Yorkshire in 1899, Grandma Wild’s prides itself on using only the finest ingredients, locally sourced wherever possible, to make biscuits in a host of delicious traditional flavours that have won both Gold and Silver Great Taste Awards. A family business, currently in its fourth generation, they still bake to many of the same recipes created by their great grandmother Annie Wild over 100 years ago.

Makes a 1.1kg cake. 800g.