Who likes fruitcake?

[Zen]

I do

but it has to be a good one.

Just curious, I think it it gets an undeserved bad rap.

[owlice]

I have not had any fruitcake that I like. I'm not opposed to trying additional fruitcakes.

(It seems to me that I could almost say the same thing about husbands, except that I have no desire to wed again! And I still like my first husband, though our marriage didn't work.)

[BikingNurse]

Owlice,
You said it perfectly!! lol Cracked me up.

[spazzdog]

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

spazz

[GLC1968]

I voted against it though admittedly I haven't tried it since I was a kid. It just looks, feels and weighs so unappealing!

[OakLeaf]

It depends. If it's homemade with real fruit (and booze ), sure. If it's made with candied artificially colored fruit parts, HFCS and unidentifiable starch, leave it in the package!

[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.