Fruit cake....love it or compost material?

[Dees]

It's gotta be moist....most commercial cakes are too dry.

[leftofthedial]

1. love it

but like anything, there are good ones and not so good ones.

[mr_hat]

2. Door stop material. Although,

growing up in England, there was an incentive to at least pick through your fruitcake: You might be the lucky bloke who found a ten-pence coin in his serving.

[cornermouse]

3. Does fruit cake decompose?

I figured it just sort of fossilized.

[ClintonTyree]

4. Paper weight...............

there is no other worldly use for it, at least in my opinion.

[Deja Q]

5. Compost material? I'd see plastic decomposing much more quickly...

:wow:

[fluffernutter]

6. my mom's homemade is pretty good.

i'm not really a fruitcake fan, but it is one of my mother's holiday traditions - she bakes it early in the month and bastes it with brandy and love and because of that, i have grown to like hers

[AntiCoup2K4]

7. Depends on the recipie

My mom used to put so much brandy in the fruitcake that you could catch a decent buzz after a couple healthy slices of the thing :evilgrin:

[haele]

8. Gotta be the cake, not the bread

Unless the bread is like a pumpkin/ginger bread. That fruitcake that is basically dried fruit in a french roll or english muffin is nasty.

And lay off the citron. Preserved Orange and Lemon rind where the flavor has been drained off is particularly nasty. Those tasteless, green "maraschino" cherries are also too weird. Fresh grated orange peel and perhaps some dried white raisins, or better yet - dried apples or pears are much better than citron and green "maraschinos".

And the consistency of the bread has to at least be that of a decent cake muffin.

Haele

[Cuban_Liberal]

9. I like it, mostly.

Homemade fruitcake just ROCKS, but you're right--- the commercial ones can be dry.

[scarlet_owl]

10. Love it! I think I might buy one for myself today at the store.

[skygazer]

11. I've never had one that I liked

But I don't think I've ever had a homemade one. My mom used to buy those Claxton Farms fruitcakes - they were shaped like a brick with about the same consistency. The Red Cross or Salvation Army or someone used to sell them so mom always bought one because she was a sucker for any charity.

It would sit around the house - seems like she'd put it in the frig, getting it out to perch upon the table when people came over. I don't recall anyone ever actually eating it. I think my dad built the foundation of our garage with them.....

[Z_I_Peevey]

12. I married a fruitcake lover

and I've developed a slight relationship with fruitcake myself.

One year I candied my own orange, grapefruit and lemon peel for the annual baking extravaganza, but truthfully, I couldn't tell much difference between the resulting cake and one made with storebought fruit mix.

I've eaten one particular fruitcake that was tasty. It was made by my cousin in Californee, and contained large quantities of candied pineapple and coconut. She holds the recipe as a big, big secret. I've never been able to duplicate it.

[ooglymoogly]

13. i loff thee fruts kaykes

i eet theem een thee bet and get thee kdrums all overd thee cheets and then i kan eet thee kdrums all off thee veek vile i vatch the propoganda on thee tee vee.

[yellowdogintexas]

14. My first father in law LOVED fruitcake, so one year I made one

for him. The damn thing was HUGE and filled three large loaf pans.

I soaked them in good bourbon, wrapped them in foil and he was absolutely thrilled.

He froze them and rationed them to himself for the whole year, slice at a time.

So until he died, he got fruitcake for Christmas.


The batter for this cake was awesome: lots of cinnamon, clove, etc all the good baking spices and orangejuice instead of milk as the liquid.

One of these days I am going to bake it w/o the citron, and other icky stuff and just put more nuts in it. My (second) husband is a fruitcake fan too so he would appreciate it.

[u4ic]

15. ..

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