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The Best Christmas Cake comes from Sri Lanka – By Rachel Bartholomeusz  This is the cake even fruit cake haters will love. It’s much closer to a flourless cake or a brownie than the usual rock-hard missiles that pass for Christmas cake elsewhere. But there’s a catch: you need to make it now to for flavours to develop and the cake’s moisture to increase     ByRachel Bartholomeusz Special Broadcasting Service Australia 22 NOV 2018       (Full disclosure: I am half Sri Lankan and thus prone to hyperbole, but you’ve just got to trust me)          The Romans might have invented the fruitcake, but Sri Lanka, a tiny island in the Indian Ocean, perfected it. It might strike you as odd that a Buddhist-majority country is home to the best Christmas cake in the world, but it shouldn’t. This cake tells the story of the cultures that have passed through Sri Lanka, of ...