Who likes fruitcake?

[shootingstar]

I prefer homemade or from bakery because since I did make it, I could appreciate the effort by others to make it. But I prefer a light fruitcake vs. dark.

For several Christmases, a while ago, I did make my own fruitcake which was fresh cranberry-apricot fruitcake soaked in brandy for 1 month. Gave pieces to family members and some close friends as part of my gifts. Mine had candied ginger and I never put in maraschino cherries.

I stopped making and giving it when 1 of my brother-in-laws told me that their chunk was still around after a few months.

Note: Real marzipan is lovely. One needs to go to a European style artisan bakery.

[Pax]

If left unopened in its decorative tin, it makes a very nice doorstop

spazz

LOL!!!!


When I was a kid we would send fruitcake to my dad every christmas when he doing tours in Vietnam...my gramma would somehow manage to get an entire bottle of rum soaked into the thing before we mailed it. He was very popular with the men in his squadron.

[Deborajen]

I remember the Tonight Show did a piece about fruitcakes and how you can't get rid of them - they put a fruitcake inside a building, blew up the building, and there was nothing left but the fruitcake!

I can't stand the stuff with the candied fruit. It doesn't taste like anything you should really eat - ? But we used to get a diabetic fruitcake for my Grandpa and it wasn't bad. I also tried making one once. It was a tropical fruitcake with golden raisins, dried papaya, dried pineapple, dried apricots and coconut all rehydrated with almond liqueor and apple brandy. The fruit was good, but the cake was like sawdust. With a better cake recipe, that would probably be a good fruitcake. But it cost over $30 to make that cake, so I'm not planning on trying again.

[Zen]

These guys make a mean fruitcake
http://www.monasteryfruitcake.org/

[MomOnBike]

I've made fruitcake, and enjoyed eating it and giving it away this time of year. It gets such a bad rap, though, that I stopped. I don't want to go to all that work and expense if people aren't even going to try it. Sad, really. Some of them were really good.

Come to think of it, fruit cake is a lot like ravioli. The commercial canned stuff is inedible, but if you are lucky to get ravioli made by someone who knows how. . .

Sadly, about all anyone knows is the commercial varieties of either.

[Chile Pepper]

There aren't enough options in the poll. I wanted to vote "Blech! Why?" but had to settle for the demure "No thank you."

[kelownagirl]

love love love it. No one in my family made any this year. Sigh....

[PamNY]

Oh, Zen, you made me want fruitcake.

Pam

[tzvia]

I used to love good fruitcake, warm with my favorite 31flavor, chocolate/peanutbutter, melting all over it...

MMMMM....
But that is how I got obese. Now I am not, and have 15 more lbs to go that just won't go and won't be helped by gooey fruitcake and ice-cream that is not on the menu any more. Oh well. I used to substitute a poptart for fruitake if I did not have any, and glob on the ice-cream. Yumm.

Fruitcake by itself is boring, but with ice-cream melted all over (with whipped cream, sprinkles and hot chocolate fudge) it is transformed into mondo dessert!

Ignore me, it's just the rambling of my fatso past. I can't remember the last time I had ice-cream or fruitcake or hot fudge.

I think fruitcake is the number 1 're-gifted' item in the U.S.