Fruit cake

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	I love fruit cake
	10 (71%)
	I hate fruit cake
	2 (14%)
	I take the 5th
	2 (14%)
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[Niagara]

1. I've never had fruit cake.

[Tetrachloride]

5. dense sweet bread. lots of butter

give it a try, then you know.

the fruit is usually candied fruit.

i myself like it more every year if homemade

[jimfields33]

9. Your very lucky.

One of the most repulsive foods you could eat. I unfortunately took a bite of one years ago and never recovered. You’ve gone this long. Trust me continue.

[highplainsdem]

2. I love good fruitcake. Bad fruitcake can be inedible, but that's true of

any cake.

Btw, if you ever run across a recipe for brandied fruitcake torte and you're tempted to try it, but it seems to have a LOT of sugar, you might want to steer clear of it in case it's the one I made, decades ago. Took me hours, and it looked really nice, but it was so damn sweet you could get sick from more than a half-inch slice. I ended up throwing most of it out.

I don't usually buy brandy, though, and I enjoyed the rest of the bottle.

[Botany]

3. Good fruit cake is very good and very rich .... you can not eat too much at one time

The mass produced crappy fruit cakes are God awful.

[2naSalit]

4. Depends on the fruitcake.

[vanlassie]

6. Dad was in the cottonseed oil business. Every year he received gifts from

companies he did business with. Every year there came a fruitcake shaped like the state of Texas. No one in the family liked grandma’s fruitcake, so we automatically dumped Texas. Until one year my sisters and I discovered this cake was filled with sweet cherries, pecans and chocolate chips. OMG. It was tragic how we had disrespected that cake.

[MLAA]

8. Ahh a wasted youth! Haha.

[hlthe2b]

7. "Love" might be a little strong, but I do like it on occasion...

And the traditional (and somewhat expensive to buy and make) fruitcakes are really quite good. Maybe it is an aversion to candied fruit that deters some folks. I remember a recipe for "fruitcake" cookies in the old Betty Crocker "Cookies" classic cookbook that required citron and other fruitcake ingredients. They were good so, I never had the deterrence to those "supposed doorsteps".

[woodsprite]

11. I have a recipe for fruitcake cookies without the citron

I think citron was the thing I didn’t like in store bought cakes. This recipes uses 1 lb of each - gold raisins, candied cherries, candied pineapple, dates, 3 c of chopped nuts and 2 oz bourbon or brandy. Very little flour, a bit of brown sugar and a handful of spices.

Maybe I’ll try adding some chocolate chips to a dozen or so to see how they taste. The recipe makes over 200 cookies, plenty to experiment with!

[KarenS]

10. I like the cake part but not

the candied 'fruit' part,,,
used to have a recipe for the dark dense cake part,,,, but I don't cook or bake anymore,,,, so now it's gone forever.

[Easterncedar]

12. I make fruitcake as my mother taught me

Spicy and rich and soaked in brandy. Served warm with hard sauce or cream, it’s just gorgeous.

[Phoenix61]

13. I make it every year before Thanksgiving.

I use dried apricot, pineapple, and papaya. Plus
Raisins, dates, pecans and walnuts. After baking I let them dry out overnight the wrap in cheese cloth and soak in Capt Morgan’s Spiced Rum until Christmas.

[rsdsharp]

14. My mom started her fruitcakes before Halloween.

They were wrapped in brandy soaked towels and placed in tins on a shelf at the top of the cellar stairs. The towels were “refreshed” periodically. She used the neon candied fruit, but it was delicious.

I’ve made Alton Brown’s fruitcake, which uses dried fruits, plumped up in rum, with the finished cake spritzed with brandy. It’s better than my mom’s.

I have a recipe for Hubert Keller’s Alsatian Fruit Bread. It uses a ton of dried fruits and nuts plumped in eau-de-vie, and mixed with just enough brioche dough to hold them together. I haven’t made it yet, but want to.