Mixing for X’mas cake

Giving the Christmas cake it unique taste is the fruits that are soaked for months in wine, rum and whiskey. Novotel Hyderabad Convention Centre set the festive season rolling with their annual cake mixing ceremony.

Spreading the cheer of the festivities, the event saw corporate guests, hotel associates, expats along senior management team and the in house guests actively participating in the cake mixing ceremony.

The hotel staff led everyone to the mixing table as it is a tradition at the hotel to welcome the festival season with a fruit soaking ceremony ahead of Christmas. A large vessel was set with candied ginger strips lining the bottom, and huge trays filled with fruit. And of course the all important ‘spirit of the season’ in bottles – wine, rum and whiskey etc was flown in abundance to soak the fruit in. Each guest was given gloves, aprons and chefs hats. Everyone began work with handfuls of fruit ceremoniously dumped into the vessel where the fruit was mixed. Once all the fruit was in, and well mixed, the bottle were emptied in one by one.