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I'm sure it will be fantastic Sticki, I love marzipan and not fussy about the icing, so I will take a piece thank you. Happy Christmas.

Happy Christmas Sticki, and the cake looks very sweet (taste wise) and festive with the green and red together.

Happy Christmas Sticki..You are good company, even after midnight with the mad insomniacs. XXX

Thank you Sticki ( I'm not thinking how many hours but OH wonders why I spend time giggling at the PC....look on Bloomers latest blog..I blame the carrots...)

Have a very happy Christmas and a peaceful 2012 xxx

just sat down with a coffee & saw this..i will have a slice too please..in reality..a kit kat..lol. Merry Christmas..

carrots and cats have a lot to answer for dont they pam!!

thank you cinderella, alex, pimpernel, pam and joanella

It looks brilliant Sticki, save a slice for me! Have a lovely Christmas and don't work too hard x

I love marzipan!!!! Happy Christmas :))))))))

Happy Christmas, Sticki! And all good wishes for a great year's gardening in 2012.

that looks delicious Sticki, happy Christmas too.. :-)

Merry christmas from me to you Sticki and here's to blogging in 2012. Love the cake by the way, and tell your OH the icing is the best bit.

Ermmmm 2012 Golden Jubliee and Olympics I wonder what we will all be doing /planting and planning?

oh, thank you Sticki - looks delicious and it's homemade - something I am not good at... Happy Christmas to you too:)

watching the olympics without a ticket i think kfun.
will do annella!
me too paul
thanks oji, surreylad and kasy.

Your cake looks lovely,Sticki..and just a teeny piece please..I have some chocolate to eat later..I really hope you enjoy your Christmas,and unless you want to be up even later than usual..don't read all that blog..although it might send you to sleep ! :o)

Happy Xmas Sticki.

I have been reading it but i got lost bloomer!!! perhaps i was too tired.

thanks bampy ~ and to you and all your family ~ and all the pets.

Owwwwww! lovely. Thanks Sticki. Merry Christmas.
Linda x

not surprised Sticki ..sensible lady :o)..you don't really want to know..:o)

Merry Christmas Sticki, Thanks for the lovely card and hope the cake taste as good as it looks YUMMY . :)xx

That's a very artistic cake Sticki. Have a great Christmas, and all good wishes for 2012.

Ooh that looks yummy Sticki ... and a Merry Christmas to you. X

Merry Christmas Stickitoffee :o)

I would need some icing on your cake, Sticki so I'll pass on having a slice! ... Pretty card ... Happy Christmas to you ... enjoy this weekend ... ; o)

lovely! Merry Xmas to you too :))))))))))))

Aahhh Sticki, thank you, I love cake, how kind. We have all had a good year on Goy haven't we? Some fun and laughter goes a long way to making everyone feel good! Happy christmas Sticki and heres to a great new gardening year 2012. x

Oh, Sticki! There was a lot of work went into that great masterpiece! It's really well done, I'm sure you had a ball making it! I would love a piece please, Sticki, Hubby can have the artistic marzipan, and I'll have the yummy cake! I'll provide my own piece of cheese, I love it with Christmas cake! :0) And have a lovely pre-Christmas celebration with your two sons, I know they're not around for Xmas day, so I'm sending you a hug... not to be opened until Christmas morning! (HUG!!)Lol! ;0)x

I thought it was just Yorkshire people who had cheese with Christmas cake Libet!

That cake is fantastic, Sticki, yes please I would love a slice. How did you stick the glitter on? Here's wishing you a wonderful Christmas - the catering's sure to be first class, but make the others wash up afterwards!

Happy Christmas Sticki, and I endorse the content of your blog! I look forward to my daily 'fix' of GoY - it's great fun! :o)

Thank you very much, Sticki - this is the closest I'll get to having a piece of Christmas cake...and I prefer the marzipan to the icing too :)

Have a wonderful Christmas and all wishing you all good things in 2012 xxx

Lovely card Sticki and that cakes fab, want to come and decorate mine ;-)
A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too xx

Happy Christmas Sticki ...
the cake looks pretty :o)

Love the cake and the card, thank you Dear Friend, I wish you a very merry Christmas and healthy and happy new year,

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Stiki

Happy Christmas :)))))

Merry xmas to you, i'm not very keen on icing either.

Looks lovely to me Sticki, just love Marzipan! A very Happy Christmas to you and your Family too and all the Best for the New Year xx

Ooh. Yum, yum! Looks really good Sticki.
Merry Christmas!

Save a slice for me Sticki, Thank you and thank you for your good company this year, merry xmas x

Looks wonderful, I hope you enjoy that yummy cake!

That cake looks really tasty Stickie. I too prefer the cake with just marzipan , so save some for me.
I hope you enjoyed your early christmas with your sons.
Have a very happy christmas and new year.

Merry Christmas to you too. Today´s marzipan-cake consumption was I guess a small festival of "the heaven in mouth", wasn´t it? With coffee? Hmmmmmmm.

how lovely sticki, merry christmas to you and your family and all the very best for 2012, yummy cake :o)) x

Cake looks lovely Sticki but have to say no thankyou as I also don`t like marzipan, do love icing though, the crunchier the better ..
Merry Christmas to you and looking forward to sharing gardening chatter and lots of happy banter next year...

You are all so kind, thank you so much.
Think I better make another cake for those of you who don't like marzipan. I also made shortbread biscuits, would that be better?

I really hope you have a very very happy Christmas and a sparkling new year.

Oh yes ! can I have cake and biscuits Sticki ?

We use to have a pub near hear called the " Land 'o'Cakes" a rough place, no doilies.

Pimpernel, you made me laugh! There are no doilies under these cakes either!
Love the name of the pub!

I love marzipan. I was brought up on "Mozart Kugeln", if you know what is it, lol.

mmmmmmmmmm shortbread!

happy christmas stickitoffee, and your cake looks delicious! i love marzipan but hate icing also, so it would do nicely for me, i shall just have to imagine what it tastes like:-)) have a lovely christmas holiday:-))

I'm the only person in our family who likes marzipan, so I miss out a bit there. You can't really ice a C. cake without it, though. My Christmas nibbling usually revolves round industrial amounts of C. cake, crisp celery with salt, stilton, walnuts and pears, all eaten together. mmmmmmm! OOh, forgot chocolate, but that has a place of it's own.

I have seen the mozart chocolate marzipan in austria and here katarina ~ is that the one?
its going fast pixi!
thank you justdawn, you too!
that plate of celery, salt, stilton walnuts and pears sounds delicious gattina ~ do you have a photo or a painting!!?
and the chocolate ~ oh yes on its own!!!

Darn! I'd do you a photo, Sticki, but I've just scoffed the last of the celery, so you'll have to wait until I've been to the market tomorrow. OHG has just been very stern with me and said that we mustn't eat any more of our supply of Stilton 'til Christmas, or it won't last, and there won't be any to offer guests. SO? What's your point, OH?

Sticki that card and cake look wonderful, so kind of you to think of us GoYers like that. Just have to say mmmm shortbread, I'm thinking a nice piece of shortbread with a Baileys hot chocolate. Yummy.

Hope everyone here (and their families and friends) have a wonderful Christmas and a very happy (and healthy) new year. Heres to 2012.

christmas starts now ~ eat what you like gattina!!!

samjp ~ baileys hot chocolate ~ wonderful idea!!!

Have a lovely time with your Family Sticki.

Thank you so much everyone. They seemed to really like the food, which is great.

mmmm...like the sound of the shortbread (but with the baileys in black coffee, not in hot chocolate like samjp!!)
sorry, not a marzipan fan - it's like marmite isn't it for the love/hate thing??! weird, cos I like almonds...
hope the day went well! :-)
ps the xmas card was fab!!

Thanks Jeanette, I like marmite too!
Baileys in coffee works for me too, it's also good over ice cream!

Happy Christmas to you to ST nice cake I like icing but not marzipan.

Baileys my tipple not tried it in coffee must do.

Got to keep some for my Baileys truffles

ooh they sound nice scotkat, how do you make those?

I may as well ask my GoY friends, since I am having absolutely no luck here:- Has anyone come across a liqueur called "Frangelico"? It is made in the Piedmont area of northern Italy, and is made from hazelnuts. You would have thought you might have expected to see it on the shelves in this country, but whenever I ask for it, I get blank looks and negative answers. An English friend said she's sure she's seen it in Sainsburys, but now can't find it. Has anyone ever heard of it or seen it? I'm beginning to think I'm going loopy. I'm not a fan of Baileys original, and I never drink coffee, and this sounded rather nice, since I absolutely love hazelnuts. Apart from drinking it, I wanted to make hazelnut truffels.

Waitrose sell it Gattina

thats very true pimpernel, i bought some myself and i work there so i ought to know!!!

http://www.waitrosewine.com/230306438/Product.aspx?SearchTerm=frangelico

It's the only place I can get it as well..and Giant Couscous

Brilliant! I shall send Santa to Waitrose then - he has just about enough time........... Thank you, everyone!

please can you tell us the recipe for the truffles gattina?

did you know you can get hazelnut baileys?

Ah Sticki what a lovely year I have had with you and so many funny interactions on GOY if your cake is as lovely as you it will be perfect my love and good wishes to you this christmas and Happy New Year xxxxx

PS Best ask a squirrel that question Sticki lol:) x

nana d you are much too kind but you have made me laugh so many times, and i am in awe of your lovely mosaics ~ clever lady. hope you all have a wonderful time, did your daughter like the mosaic?

Hi Sticki not given it to her yet it is part of her xmas present but had trouble with grout colour and had to paint grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrout not a pleasant experience but it looks OK now when I can take a decent pic will post:) x

im sure she will be delighted!

look forward to the picture.

A very happy Christmas to you too Sticki:-) You are a little tease though..showing us this fantastic work of art and offering a...well let's face.... it a pretend slice. To make up for the torment, you could send me a slice and I could tell everyone how delicious it is:-)

Ok Ba you have to send your address very quickly cos there are only about 3 slices left!

I may just call your bluff Sticki:-)

Just catching up Sticki....
A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family....
Cake looks delicious!! :) - although I would expect nothing less from you :)

Just seen this Sticki. Fantastic Card and Cake - very artistic :o) Loving the glitter. The card is truly amazing. So is the cake :o)))))))) Merry Christmas xx

you are too kind n3 ~ that tree you have just made is pretty spectacular!!

fine with me BA but you have to be quick.

thanks scottish, it was nice ~ too nice, might even have to make another for 25th!!

Happy Christmas, Sticki - I think I may be too late for a piece of cake but maybe first in line if you're making another for 25th :) Hope you have a lovely Christmas and all the best for 2012.

thank you Gee, im trying very hard to keep a couple of slices for christmas day so you are not too late!! and one for BA if she sends that address super quick.!!

a very happy christmas to you too.

Now you'll have to make another one 'cos I've called your bluff and your offer was witnessed by lots of people on here...so you have to honour your promise:-)
I'm thinking of opening an online bakery arm to BAFashion, wadya think?:-)

ok a promise is a promise ~ i will post it tomorrow. dont eat it all at once.

It's on it's way!

Hope you have a Happy Christmas, Stickitoffee! Best Wishes! :)

many thanks Uma and a very happy christmas to you too!

Hazelnut truffles sounds good, but my translator did not find what it is in Slovak. Gattina, send sometimes a photo and a recipe, if you want.

Too late for the photos, Katarina, we've eaten them all! They are just sweets made of white chocolate, cream, chopped roasted hazelnuts and flavoured liqueur. I couldn't get the hazelnut liqueur, so I used apricot liqueur instead. The diet starts some time in January!

Ooooooh yummy gattina, I had a special little pot for Christmas for melting chocolate!

Honestly, Sticki, all the rest of the truffles are still in the cupboard - we just ate SO much over the past couple of days, we couldn't manage all of them. The white chocolate ones were just rather tempting, and a girl has to keep her strength up while she's stuffing the turkey, and listening to the carol service from King's College, doesn't she? (helped by everyone else)
Your chocolate pot sounds the first step on the primrose path to temptation!!!!

One must always keep one's strength up, I heartily agree. Primrose path sounds rather better than the slippery slope!

There are plenty of those around this bit of the world this morning, Sticki!
p.s. we actually have a primrose in bloom in the garden - or did until the snow arrived yesterday!

I have one too! But no snow.
I also have fuchsias one of which is growing new shoots and buds all over!
My sons sent a photo of their view from the window, an alpine valley sprinkled in snow and another from the ski slopes with snow covered mountains, I could almost breathe that crisp clear air, it was stunningly beautiful.

Aren't we lucky?

Do you think these plants still growing is some sort of a record?

Sons photos and phone calls made my day yesterday.

Who knows? I think this is going to happen more and more in the future.
Where are your sons? Do they live abroad or are they just there on holiday?

They normally live in south London and Suffolk but they are spending the week in Morzine, France, it's not far from the Swiss border.