I noticed the candied fruit in the store - which raises the question -

[hedgehog]

have you made your fruit cake yet?

[beac]

1. Even homemade, fruit cake loses me at "candied fruit."

Blech.

[supernova]

2. No, I don't like fruitcake

I do like cake with other dried fruits though:

cranberries, cherries, apricots, raisins. German Stollen comes to mind as a better version of that.

[Tesha]

3. I have to dig out the recipe...

I think it was in Joy of Cooking - the hubby loves it.
Even I like that recipe, and that's a first!


and once the Fruitcake is done - then its Stollen

[hedgehog]

4. I need good recipes for fruitcake and plum pudding

I make a fruitcake of sorts - basically a sturdy pound cake with dried fruit and nuts, then lavish amounts of Irish mist.

[kestrel91316]

5. I wish I had my mom's fruitcake recipe from the 70's. It did NOT have the

brandy-soaked thing going on. Baked in a tube pan (the one she used for angel food cake), it was dense, studded with pecans and candied fruits. I loved it. Totally different from the regular stuff.

[Retrograde]

6. Thanks for reminding me

I keep meaning to try Alton Brown's fruitcake one of these days