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It's fruitcake season. How do you feel about fruitcake?  It's a Christmas joke to some people and some people love it. My dad actually likes fruitcake so I always make one at Christmas. My dad likes some weird stuff because he grew up eating stuff my grandma always made. He also likes potato candy. What a pain to make that is!  For me what truly makes fruitcake disgusting is the candied fruit. So I use dried fruit in mine. Dried cherries, apricot and pineapple. I also use macadamia nuts instead of walnuts.

A properly made fruitcake is a delightful treat.  Yes, dried fruit is far better than 'candied fruit', with the chemical bleaching, processing, chemical flavor and color addition.  Figs are another fruit that I like in a fruitcake.

Macadamia nuts instead of walnuts is a nice touch.  Clever!  I bet you'll have a smoother flavor and texture.  I'll have to try that.


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I've always thought fruitcake was disgusting for the same reason you do.  I love that you make your dad with different ingredients.  Does he miss the candied fruit?  I will need to try your recipe.
Hugs, Jessica 🤶

I hate Christmas pudding and I avoid cake in general, especially fruitcake.  At Christmas, my mother used to make, especially for me, something called Chinese Chew, made entirely with chocolate, coconut and chopped candied fruit.  I liked it when I was young but I eventually asked my mother to stop making it with me in mind, as it was so sickly sweet.  With hindsight, it would have been nicer with chopped dried fruit instead of candied fruit. 

Quote from: Jessica on December 04, 2017, 08:17:39 AM
I've always thought fruitcake was disgusting for the same reason you do.  I love that you make your dad with different ingredients.  Does he miss the candied fruit?  I will need to try your recipe.
Hugs, Jessica 🤶

He actually likes it better with dried fruit rather than candied fruit. Even my brother likes it.

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Here's my recipie.

3-5 cups of dried fruit. Depending how much you like in your fruitcake. I use cherries, pineapple, aprpicot and golden raisins. You could also use dates,figs or currants.
1 1/2 cups of macadamia nuts. I chop them roughly with a knife. The food processor chops them too fine.
2 cups all purpose flour.
1/2 tap baking soda.
1 tsp each:
Ground cloves.
Allspice.
Cinnamon.
1/2 tsp salt.
1 cup of softened butter.
2 cups packed brown sugar.
6 eggs.
3/4 cup apple juice.
3/4 cup molasses.
Preheat the oven to 275 degrees .
Mix the flour, baking soda, salt and spices together. 
Cream the butter and then beat in brown sugar.
Beat in the eggs one at a time.
Mix together apple juice and molasses then beat it into the butter mixture alternately with the flour and spice mixture.
Lightly coat the dried fruit and nuts in sifted flour (it keeps them from sinking to the bottom of the batter) and then fold them into the batter.
Pour the batter into a greased tube pan and bake for 3-3 1/2 hours .
After the cake is cool wrap it in wax paper and keep it in a airtight container. This is a heavy cake but it comes out moist,

I like fruitcake. There's only one opportunity a year to have it, so I always have a piece.

Hugs, Devlyn

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on December 04, 2017, 11:18:57 AM
I like fruitcake. There's only one opportunity a year to have it, so I always have a piece.

Hugs, Devlyn

I notice that the candied fruit is only around at Christmas.  Since I use dried fruit which I can buy or even make is available all year I can make it anytime. I made a fruitcake last may.

It should be hard enough to serve by now!  :laugh:

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on December 04, 2017, 12:05:10 PM
It should be hard enough to serve by now!  :laugh:

Lol.

I like it at Christmas, if it is well made, with a nice hot beverage. I'm not a huge sweets person but seasonal goodies are nice.

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on December 04, 2017, 12:05:10 PM
It should be hard enough to serve by now!  :laugh:

... server as a door stop ...

it's about all they're good for

Can't speak for other brands, but mine is awesomely tasty [emoji16]. I chuck in just about anything that isn't nailed down, then soak it in various booze for a good month.

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Door stop.

Stollen is good though.

Quote from: Viktor on December 04, 2017, 09:21:37 PM
Door stop.

Stollen is good though.

I'm with Viktor, although since we adopted dogs it's been rubbish at that too!
I quite like Christmas puddings though, well good homemade jobs.
It's a bit exciting now we've hit December.☺️

My Father in Law (lovely man) was a member of Lion's International in Adelaide and they had a Christmas Fruit cake that was well known. Every Christmas he would buy a cake for each family group including my wife and I and give them as a gift on Christmas day.
Every Christmas Eve I would take the previous years cake, still in its box and throw it in the bin in readiness for the new one.

Even our dogs turn up their noses at fruitcake. If they won't eat it, it may as well be a doorstop. The last time we had one, even the mice left it alone ... no good for baiting traps.

Quote from: Lady Sarah on December 04, 2017, 11:29:33 PM
Even our dogs turn up their noses at fruitcake. If they won't eat it, it may as well be a doorstop. The last time we had one, even the mice left it alone ... no good for baiting traps.

Australian mouse trap. Lay a piece of corrugated sheeting on the ground. The mice go under the sheet to hide. Drop fruit cake on top of corrugated sheet to kill mice - voila'

Wow Memories. There was only one fruitcake recipe I ever liked and no one in the family can find it. My Grandmothers. What made it so great is it had a ton or rum in it and on it. Now i'm older I know why. She had 6 kids and ended up with 24 grand kids.

Julia really!!!! Are you a foody? Anchovies to fruit cake. Well my feeling on fruit cake is that it is delicious if made right. Too many people make it really dry and who likes dry cake. My mother makes a killer one and you want to eat more. So yes to fruit cake like 110%!!!!

Quote from: Jailyn on December 05, 2017, 09:10:44 AM
Julia really!!!! Are you a foody? Anchovies to fruit cake. Well my feeling on fruit cake is that it is delicious if made right. Too many people make it really dry and who likes dry cake. My mother makes a killer one and you want to eat more. So yes to fruit cake like 110%!!!!

How you make fruitcake makes a big difference.  My grandma makes a wretched fruitcake.  It's dry, it has that nasty candied fruit that's like chewing little erasers and I don't know if it's because she pours rum over hers but it has a bitter after taste. It's just nasty. My great aunt makes a good fruitcake according to my dad and it was hers he liked. My grandma isn't a bad cook at all she just has weird ideas. Like mixed vegetables suspended in green Jell-O . Yarf! She calls it holiday salad.

Yes, definitely a door stop.

Quote from: Viktor on December 04, 2017, 09:21:37 PM
Door stop.

Stollen is good though.

Y'all are going to be paying for these doors you ruin.

Seriously, it's not about the fruit cake, it's about you. If someone like Julia gives you a nice soft delicious fruitcake, she's telling you something. As is the person who gives you a brick style, inedible Dollar Store fruitcake. It's up to you to understand the meaning of the gift.  :)

Hugs, Devlyn

Fruitcake goes in the pile with the candy corn and marshmallow peeps as holiday food stuffs that I believe should be rounded up and blast off into space along with people who name their children nonsense like Pilot Inspektor. (Jason Lee's kid's real name.)

Mmmm, fruitcake :)

Looking forward to the cake this year, maybe it'll make it past Easter.

Rowan

Quote from: Roll on December 05, 2017, 08:57:06 PM
Fruitcake goes in the pile with the candy corn and marshmallow peeps as holiday food stuffs that I believe should be rounded up and blast off into space along with people who name their children nonsense like Pilot Inspektor. (Jason Lee's kid's real name.)

You don't like candy corn?? OMG I love that stuff. I even found some Christmas candy corn . I like the peeps too. Lol

My usual thoughts on fruitcake are place fruitcake in catapult, douse with gasoline, light and launch out to sea...

But Julia's recipe had me at cherries, pineapple and macadamias... I'd love to try a bit of that kind

Yule logs are where it's at.

Quote from: Viktor on December 06, 2017, 04:33:35 PM
Yule logs are where it's at.

I love yule log cake.

I'm a fan of what was referred to as a depression cake... no eggs, milk or butter.

Reminds me of the jam sandwiches I made in college.  Two slices of bread jammed together, nothing else. 

If you collect up enough fruitcakes over the years you will eventually have enough bricks to build a fine pizza oven  >:-)

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I like Fruitcake

I also like Fruitcake with Custard

Quote from: Geeker on January 08, 2018, 10:28:50 PM
I'm a fan of what was referred to as a depression cake... no eggs, milk or butter.

That does sound depressing. Cake is supposed to make people happy.

Quote from: Kendra on January 09, 2018, 01:05:45 AM
Reminds me of the jam sandwiches I made in college.  Two slices of bread jammed together, nothing else.

Lol. I had one of those once. Instead of the usual PBJ sandwich my dad always put in my lunch for school I had 2 pieces of bread.  I don't know if he had been tired or what when he made it. Lol

Quote from: Kendra on January 09, 2018, 01:05:45 AM
Reminds me of the jam sandwiches I made in college.  Two slices of bread jammed together, nothing else.

I've always called those "Wish sandwiches" - Got to slices of bread, wish I had something to put between them LOL

I'm not entirely sure I've ever had it. Partly because I'm not all that fond of cakes, but also because it always looked to me a bit like Christmas pudding, which is something that traumatised me as a kid one Christmas when my brother took a huge bite on a spoonful and it pretty much welded his jaws shut for several minutes. I have no idea what was in it, but I thought it was punishment for him complaining that the turkey was too dry.

The wild-eyed stare of panic and several alarmed hand gestures told me all I needed to know about cakes and stuff over the festive period, lol.

Mmmmm, If I could weld my brother's mouth shut sometimes  >:-)

Quote from: V M on January 09, 2018, 08:49:25 PM
Mmmmm, If I could weld my brother's mouth shut sometimes  >:-)

Put Krazy Glue in his taco :)

Quote from: V M on January 09, 2018, 08:49:25 PM
Mmmmm, If I could weld my brother's mouth shut sometimes  >:-)

You said it. Lol