Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for December 16, 2022

I like fruitcake too, dark recipe, more nuts than candied fruit.

FWIW, it isn’t really “Christmas time” yet, it’s Advent.

Me too. Especially Panettone like my grandma made at Christmas. I’ve had some fruitcakes that came up short, but not many!

Christmas is a good time to come clean Arlo. Remember! Santa is watching!

Fruitcake properly done is delicious.. moist ginger cake, with raisins and candied fruit. And of course generously baptised in rum.. mmmm

I loved my Grandmothers fruitcake. She would pour some rum on it to keep it extra moist. At least that’s what she claimed. I’ve found it does keep it moist with a warm touch. It doesn’t last long that way but she made some great cakes.

I’m a Christmas nut to the point of playing Christmas music all year round but it never extended to fruitcake.

He’s being right.

Slather friut cake with butter and I love it.

What do you call a fruitcake that’s not soaked in rum?

A doorstop.

My Great Aunt made the best fruitcake. She’d soak a rag in Mogen David wine and keep it on top of the cake. Yum !!!

The problem isn’t fruitcake, it’s cheap, badly-made fruitcake. A well-made fruitcake is a delight.

The typical American fruitcake is horrible, but I love me some Panettone.

When there is nothing else, fruit cake can be pretty good with coffee….

My husband once bought 22 lbs of fruitcake (11 boxes of 2 lb. fruitcake) still sitting on the counter in March. He offered 50 cents a pound, the store manager came back with $2 a pound, and husband sealed the deal at $1.00 a pound. He was the happiest man ever, and the store manager was the second-happiest man ever. It was delicious fruitcake and good to the very last one.

Try Julekage.

I happen to like a good fruitcake and the ones from Mary of Puddin’ Hill are very good. For those with nut allergies, their fruitcakes have a lot of nuts, pecans especially.

https://www.puddinhill.com

Scientists are doing it all wrong. If you want to initiate Cold Fusion, you stack up all the uneaten fruitcakes until they reach critical mass…

My mother made a huge batch of fruitcake every year, sans rum because she was a teetotaler, and they were delicious.

Every-time I heard The Little Drummer Boy, I want to kick somebody in the buttocks. Other than that, I ‘only’ hate Xmas music.

I actually like fruitcake.

Define “Christmas Music.” They have 500 years worth of music to pick from, and we get “Santa Baby” over and over and over again.

If you can find it, buy a Dresdner Stollen. Or a Weihnachtsstollen, same thing sometimes. Be sure to get the kind with the Marzipanrolle in. Das schmeckt!!

The “Christmas Shoes” has to be the worst griftiest Christmas song ever. But the masses love it. Also, I believe the hate-on for Christmas fruitcake began when it became the go-to fall-back gift for Christmas. You’d get so many you could build a retaining wall. There is actually nothing wrong with Christmas fruitcake. And it brings out the Christmas spirit when it’s reserved for just this time of year.

Stay tuned for my follow-up song: “Christmas Underwears”.

The best fruitcake is the one made with Scots Whisky, for which this is the receipt [old word for recipe]:

*HOW TO MAKE A HIGHLAND FRUITCAKE FOR HOGMANAY

Ingredients:

1 cup of water

1 cup of sugar

4 large brown eggs

2 cups of dried fruit

1 teaspoon of salt

1 cup of brown sugar

Lemon juice

1 cup of nuts

1 bottle of single-malt whisky, preferably from Islay. Laphroaig is good.

Take a wee dram of whisky to get into the mood.

Put the ingredients, a large bowl, and a stirring spoon on the kitchen table.

Test the whisky again: pour one level cup and drink. Repeat.

Turn on yer electric mixer. Beat ane cup o’ butter in the large fluffy bowl.

Add ane teaspoon o’ sugar an beat agin.

Cheek yon whisky agin.

Cry another tup. Torn aff the mixer. Beat tws eggs wi’ a hammer and add tae the bowl.

Carefu’ly pit in a cup o’ fried druit. Mix on the tuner. If the fruid drite gets stuck in thae beaterers, pry it free wi’ a drewscr…screwscr…ane of thae things for screwing, ye ken whit a mean.

Sample the whisky to check for consisticity.

Neext, sift twa punt o’ salt. Or somethin. Wha cares? Tak anither dram.

Noo sift the lemon juice and chop up yer nuts. Dinnae mind the bluid.

Add one table. Spoon. Of sugar or somethin. Whit e’er ye can still find.

Grease the oven. Set thon cake tin to 350 degrees or regulo 15.

Dinnae forget tae beat aff the turner. Hae anither dram.

Traw th bool oot th windie an gae tae yer bed wi’ the rest o’ th whisky.

Naebody likes fruitcake onyway!

I ❤️ fruitcake

In high school one club always sold fruitcakes at Christmas. My dad always paid $5 for one, as long as I promised never to bring it in the house.

fruitcake is best served warmed

It’s the candied fruit I can’t stand. Make a mean Prune bread/cake instead, moist and yummy. I call it Holiday cake, never tell anyone what it is until they eat a bit. Prunes have a bad rep.

Personally I enjoy REAL Christmas carols (No, “I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus” and “Rockin around the Christmas tree” does not count!), and I DO enjoy Fruit cake! With that said, I must add the disclaimer NOT ALL FRUIT CAKES ARE CREATED EQUAL! My grandma used to make them just before Thanksgiving, and then she’d wrap them up and store them in a nice cool place. Every week, she would unwrap them, drizzle a bit of bourbon/brandy/rum/scotch (No, not all at once, she’d pick one type per year) on each, and then rewrap. These were GOAT Fruit Cakes, dare I even say Gourmet… But nothing like the over sweetened, dried out, over priced crud that many places try to pass off as a fruit cake. After a few years of making them myself,I gained a whole new respect for what went into them. Truly a labor of love, to be savored and enjoyed!

“My family tears into my fruitcake every year!”

“That’s ’cause you put an annoying, looping Xmas song card in there!”

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Arlo looks so awful in that stupid hat.

My husband likes fruitcake as well. I never met anyone who ate it until him and I didn’t find out until after we married.

My mom would put the Christmas albums on the record changer in early September and play them all day, every day, until mid_March.

The only thing that can drive me crazier than Christmas music is Christmas music in a ******* mall.

I do love a home made fruitcake. The store bought, not so much.

My mom made delicious fruitcake. No one ever believes me.

My recipe has converted a lot of fruitcake-haters. This year it features dried mango, papaya, and pineapple. Just Google “Paul Brians fruitcake.”

I wish I could have some of my mom’s fruitcake.

Every Christmas season a good buddy of mine makes a fruitcake and gives them out to customers and business contacts alike. His is most delicious. With some butter and a little time in the microwave it is as a delicious snack for made for those who enjoys fruit cake.

I make a delicious fruitcake/carrot cake. It is a carrot cake batter with the mixed fruit added. I bake it in 3 small loaf pans and freeze the leftovers. Yummy!

He does and so do I.

I had one good fruitcake in my life – moist and flavorful. I never understood people who leave them on display the whole season and then need a chain saw to cut them.

Likewise on gingerbread houses. The ginger bread is lovely when it’s moist, but when you it sit around as a decoration, it’s inedible!

I love fruitcake!!! My mother-in-law used to make them and some people didn’t appreciated so I got theirs too. She would soak them with brandy a week or two a head of time. Mmmmmm

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Collin Street Bakery for the win :-)

There are people who enjoy the look, taste and texture of fruit cake.

Sliced and buttered and warmed up slowly in a cast iron skillet.

I’ve skimmed through all the comments (but not their replies) and I can’t believe no one has said it yet…

“You enjoy being contrary!”    I do not!

I love fruitcake. Back in the day, when I was young and newly wed, before I heard that many people don’t like fruitcake, I made them for Christmas gifts. Used several recipes from my most-often used cookbook, Ukrainian Church Ladies’ Recipes. Never heard anything from the giftees, yea or nay.

I like it fine in December…when it starts in August, I’m done long before Christmas.

No fruitcake for me. I do not enjoy dried or candied fruits in baked goods, nuts in baked goods, or alcohol in anything whatsoever (the smell induces nausea). I have a hard time understanding why anyone buys those dried-up fruit and nut bricks in the stores other than tradition.

I. LOVE. FRUITCAKE!!

I love fruit cake too. You toast it and put some cream cheese on it. Yummy!