The Cake-Mixing Ceremony is an annual festive tradition that marks the beginning of the holiday season. Guests, including long-stay residents, socialites, and influencers, join hands to mix dry fruits, nuts, and spices with premium liquors such as rum, brandy, and wine. This joyful event fosters community spirit, laughter, and festive cheer as the mixture is prepared for fermentation, creating the flavourful base for Christmas cakes.
The preparation involves soaking dry fruits like apricots, figs, raisins, and nuts in rum, brandy, and wine, blended with warm spices like cinnamon and nutmeg.
The ceremony symbolizes joy, togetherness, and the start of the festive season. Guests, media, and corporate partners join the chefs to prepare the cake mix, creating shared memories and delicious anticipation for Christmas.
The mix includes raisins, cherries, figs, apricots, nuts like walnuts and almonds, and spices like cinnamon and cloves. Liquors such as rum, whiskey, and wine infuse the ingredients, creating a rich, aromatic blend for the Christmas cakes.
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