Christmas alert: Pegasus Reef’s cake mixing ceremony

• It’s not just mixing – vixing …

With less than two months left for Christmas and New Year, the city began its celebrations with the cake mixing ceremony.

The staff and executives of the Pegasus Reef Hotel geared up with aprons, caps and gloves on 2 November to take part in the fun-filled ceremony with in-house guests and invitees.

Wouldn’t it be fun to mix cherries, dates, plums and dry fruits together while having your favourite drink and moving with the beat of the Christmas music? However, the treat is not to savour immediately but to keep ready for the festive season.

Close to 100 kilos of assorted dry fruits will be mixed with cinnamons, nutmeg and generous amounts of liquor and stored in a container until the festive season. This marinated assortment of dry fruits will be incorporated when baking plum cakes and puddings. The longer the mix is kept for, the tastier will be the cake.

This traditional mixing of the Christmas cake is one of the most looked forward events at the Pegasus Reef and this year too, the ceremony will be held in the first week of November with much enthusiasm and excitement with the participation of an expert culinary crew as well as the management team of the hotel. “It is basically to bring in the festive mood and make merry. People who get these cakes are in for a pleasant surprise too,” Pegasus Reef Hotel General Manager Harsha Jayasinghe added.

The age-old ceremony of cake mixing is being an occasion for social gathering and pre-celebrations to Christmas which starts a few months before Christmas and the winter festivities.