Christmas preparations

I am not keen on thinking about Christmas very much before mid December, however some things have to be done in advance, namely the cake, pudding and mincemeat.
I had a super enthusiastic few days last week and made all three.

We had to have a glass of guinness as there was some left over from making the Christmas pudding. Hurrah!

Cooked the pudding in the slow cooker. Seemed to work well.

The mincemeat. I ended up having to make marmalade to go in it as my recipe needs that.

The cake is quite small at only 7 inches. Feeble attempt to only put on the 5 kg instead of 10 over Christmas. It will be iced - though I prefer them without Doug loves the icing.