Fruit Cake - Poll

[Ross]

Just wondering who likes fruit cake (if anyone) and who does not and you can feel free to submit your favorite recipe as well.

[kiki-do]

My sister-in-law makes a really nice fruitcake, but it's a little too sweet for me. It's a favorite of my hubbys. However, soaked in booze is always worth a little sliver or so.

[cb977]

However, soaked in booze is always worth a little sliver or so.

You always make me giggle, kiki!

[Royal]

I'll take seconds on the booze and skip the fruitcake. Something with that much fruit shouldn't even be allowed to be called cake! Just my humble opinion.

[Becca]

Well I know what it is, but have never tried it out of fear of all the jokes I hear about fruit cake...lol.

[lambelkip]

the top layer of my grandmother's wedding cake was a fruitcake. she poured brandy over it once a month to preserve it, and had some for her 25th anniversary.

[GreggC]

There is a chance that it will be edible. Forget the stuff in the tin. Just use it as a doorstop, because that is all it is good for, IMO. The citron they put in that is totally inedible. When you make it with just plain fruit and nuts, it is actually very good.

[dounoharm]

good fruitcake is a labor of love...there is just enuf cake in it to glue the fruit together, and it is slathered in brandy....but is it ever good! you got to have a sweet tooth to appreciate good fruitcake...

[Kethry1313]

We actually sell quite a bit of fruitcake at my bakery. We make two kinds of fruitcake. One is made with six kinds of dried fruit and I love it, the other is made with candied cherries and candied pineapple. It's too sweet for my tastes. None of them have citron which I find to be terribly bitter and tastes nasty.

[RosieC]

I love fruit cake. My mother-in-law makes a good one with brandy, but my aunt makes an even better one with no brandy but really really soft texture. She usually gives us one for christmas so fingers crossed.