Well, it’s dense, and it’s sticky… but it is also water soluble (at least sort of).
PS: It’s a base canard that fruitcake is always awful. I’ve had some awful fruitcake… enough to have turned me off forever is I hadn’t already had really good fruitcake. The main trick is to avoid the fluorescent “candied fruit” entirely. The other trick is to make it with less than 40% “cake” compared with 60%+ of dried fruit and nuts.
Well, it’s dense, and it’s sticky… but it is also water soluble (at least sort of).
PS: It’s a base canard that fruitcake is always awful. I’ve had some awful fruitcake… enough to have turned me off forever is I hadn’t already had really good fruitcake. The main trick is to avoid the fluorescent “candied fruit” entirely. The other trick is to make it with less than 40% “cake” compared with 60%+ of dried fruit and nuts.