<p>Family Christmas cake recipe</p>
<p>This lightly spiced Creole-style rice dish is cooked in one pan and is ready in just 30 minutes, making it a perfect midweek meal for the whole family.</p>
<p>A great dish from the brilliant Nigel Slater. Accompanied here with Couscous with citrus and pomegranate dressing</p>
<p>Perfect with any Meditteranian or North African meal</p>
<p>Basic sponge cake mix I use for birthday cakes, flavour it to suit.</p>
<p>Essential basic topping for cakes</p>
<p>Pretty easy as far as birthday cakes go.</p>
<p><span>Perfect for birthdays, this is a great recipe for an easy, foolproof chocolate cake. It’s moist and fudgy and will keep well for 4-5 days.</span></p>
<p>I made these with fresh chillis that I grow at home ... you will have to play around to figure out how much chilli to add</p>
The use of Mace and Cumin gives a really interesting flavour