If you've been brought up on home made Christmas Cake you are sure to like it. I think Diana is right, that traditionally there are no nuts in Christmas puddings. Although one of my grandmothers always put almonds in her puddings, as she loved them. My other grandmother (trained as a cook) always made every member of her family (including my father) a cake at Christmas time - 7 cakes in all, big ones, and always square, on a board, fully covered with almond icing and fully decorated with rows and patterns of white, pale pink and pale salmon colour icing, with silver dragees in centre of each flower... mine are nowhere near her standard, and to save time I put white icing just on the top, roughed up to imitate snow, decorated, with a cake band around.
