Holiday Delight

Just for the Holidays so sweet
It is the perfect Christmas treat
To make this special cake so fine
Just use this recipe of mine

Unbleached flour pure and white
About eight ounces is just right
A little butter, a six ounce stick
Four large eggs then stir it quick 

An ounce of almonds blanched and split
Then add some currants in with it
Add some raisins both dark and white
With baking powder to keep it tight

Some extra cherries if you should feel
Then add an ounce of pure mixed peel
One whole lemon both pulp and rind
Get condensed milk, the sweetened kind

To make your guests a little frisky
Add a dash of good scotch whiskey
Grease a pan with Pam so nifty
And heat the oven up to three fifty

Stir your mixture ‘til it’s nice and thick
Spread it in a pan so smooth and quick
Then take tinfoil and seal the dough
And bake it for an hour or so

Take it out and open it up
And pour your milk into a cup
Brush the milk so smooth and sweet
On top of your delicious treat

Then bake it for ten minutes more
And use a toothpick to check it for
The perfect “doneness”, that’s the rule
Then take it out and let it cool

And after it has cooled a while
The smell of it will make you smile
For Holidays you just can’t beat it
So cut a big ole slice and eat it
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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Brown Avatar
June 7, 2010 at 7:01 AM
Congratulations on your well deserved win in Linda-Marie's Dreamy Desserts contest Stephen. Love, Carol
Gorelick Avatar
June 7, 2010 at 6:45 AM
As a poem it flows beautifully. As a cake it sounds terrific. Congrats on your success in the contest. BG
Cwiak Avatar
June 6, 2010 at 9:01 PM
Wow! I may have to try to make this one as it sounds terrific! Congrats on your win in the contest. Dan C
Mehta Avatar
June 6, 2010 at 8:34 PM
Congrats on the win
Johnson Avatar
June 6, 2010 at 2:56 PM
Yum yum. Do we have to wait until Christmas? Congratulations on your win with decliciousness. Love, Joyce
K. Avatar
June 6, 2010 at 2:50 PM
oh yummy! Thanks for the recipe, Stephen--very cleverly done too :) --congrats on your win with this :) --nikko :)
Sweetheart Avatar
June 6, 2010 at 1:13 PM
Congrats Stephen on your winning poem in my contest.. this was a true holiday delight to read right now.. thankxxx for supporting my contest.. with luv.. Linda-Marie..
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