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Cooking & Baking

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8. Free Range Fruitcake by Alton Brown

Sun Jan 20, 2013, 06:15 PM

Jan 2013

I made this one two Christmas' ago. It takes a long time but the cake is wonderful. Alton uses dried fruit rather than those nasty candied glacé fruit. Then spritz the cake with brandy everyday for a couple of weeks. So it is not dry.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/free-range-fruitcake-recipe/index.html

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Any good fruit cake recipes - the one I used this year was too dry. [View all] hedgehog Jan 2013 OP

I used to use the one on the package of Pillsbury's Quick Date Nut Bread. sinkingfeeling Jan 2013 #1

Don't have the recipe handy guardian Jan 2013 #2

if cake is too dry guardian Jan 2013 #4

Free Range Fruitcake by Alton Brown Buck Turgidson Jan 2013 #8

Oh - dried fruit all the way! hedgehog Jan 2013 #9

inappropriate antiquie Jan 2013 #10

See, that looks edible, but is it fruitcake? TheManInTheMac Jan 2013 #11

209 five-star reviews say that it is definitely fruitcake. Buck Turgidson Jan 2013 #12