Fruitcake. You either love it or hate it. What about you? I personally DO NOT like fruit cake.

Try it the Yorkshire way - with a lump of cheese. Mmmm lovely!! I live down south now and all my friends think it's weird but believe me the combination works. Luv Suet

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by asterixsew 10 Dec 2011

Yes Suet this is a great way to eat Christmas cake

Nothing beats a good fruit cake or fruit pudding with custard. It's such a shame it is so fattening as I make a pig of myself every Christmas then feel sooooo guilty. :-))) hugs n roses, Meganne

Hate it, Hate it, Hate it. It is the nasty's stuff ever made. Give me chocolate in any size, shape, or form.

My Dad makes a White Fruit Cake every year. It is full of coconut, fruit and nuts! Makes my mouth water just thinking about it! Mmmmmm

LOVE IT! LOVE IT! LOVE IT! I asked for anyone's grandmother's recipes for Christmas cake a few days ago in PERSONAL tab. Got some interesting answers. Love Chris

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by chenille 09 Dec 2011

Thanks Chris. I will have to go there.I admit I have not gone to personals much for a while...had company for 2 weeks so I just popped in now and again.I will have to catch up. By the way,I just love your little possum!
Hugs, Nadyne

by pennifold 10 Dec 2011

Thanks they are really cute, except for when they run along our roof. We have a tin roof and it sounds thunderous! Love Chris

That means you never had a really good one. My Mom always served fruit cake with boiled custard. This was one of her specialities. I remember I stirred the custard as you could not walk away from it. I must have been quite young as she had to put a stool in front of the stove as I was not tall enough to stir otherwise. Kay

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by chenille 09 Dec 2011

Boiled custard is also wonderful with mince pie!

The only fruitcake I like is the one I make myself. That way I control what gets put in it, and how it tastes. So, I like my fruitcake, and detest all those vile fruitcakes they sell in the stores.

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by katydid 09 Dec 2011

I agree. That is why they get a bad rap!!

by chenille 09 Dec 2011

Touche!

keeps well if hidden, in our household!!

What is Muscovado sugar ???please ??It looks good but i don't know what this is??hugs carolyn

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by bevintex 09 Dec 2011

Muscovado is a type of unrefined brown sugar with a strong molasses flavor.

I don't now where to buy it

by chenille 09 Dec 2011

I usually use demerrara sugar when this is called for.Works for me.
Hugs, Nadyne

I make a Boiled Fruit Cake - it's lighter than the heavy old-fashioned Christmas Fruit Cake and the only sort I like and that doesn't make me feel ill.
I decorate my Boiled Fruit Cakes to suit the occasion but I never use a thick layer of icing.
A

Didn't care for it when I was a child. Now I enjoy a good fruit cake. Thanks for the recipe!

Most people have never had homemade Christmas cake. I grew up with an aunt who christmas cakes were prized presents. The link attached is a great recipe for christmas cake( yes I have made it ).And those who have never liked christmas cake loved this one.

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by chenille 09 Dec 2011

I think I will have to make yet another cake! Thanks for this.
Hugs, Nadyne
P.S. one of the great things about fruitcake is that it keeps so well.When I'm craving something sweet there is always some fruitcake! :-)

by shirlener88 09 Dec 2011

I wonder if this was wht Chris was looking for the other day?

by katydid 09 Dec 2011

I will admit i have never seen a recipe calling for coffee liqueur or cocoa. Where are the pecans? i am not criticizing by any means, but saying it it not ones usual fruit cake. As a child , we started making them at Thanksgiving to serve at Christmas. My earliest duties were to cut each raisin in half with kitchen scissors and help grease the tube pans and line them with wax paper slashed all around to fit properly. I regret that i do not have my Mom's original recipes.

by meganne 10 Dec 2011

Don't like this recipe. Sorry but it is not TRUE fruit cake! You don't have chocolate, prunes, coffee liquor or honey in a true fruit cake, nor do you top it with coffee beans.

Hate any fruit cake that has citrus in it other than that they're okay. I do have a recipe for Fruit cake that uses pecans and coconut for flour and spices, believe me it's wonderful and a big favorite whenever shared.

I love fruitcake!!

Absolutely, completely and totally HATE IT!!! When I was young and we had Christmas pudding with money in it, I used to scratch around, find the money and leave the fruitcake until my mom realised what I was doing and said I had to eat the cake before I got the money so my dislike goes back MANY years :)

I have never liked it. My first hubby loved fruitcake and I even made some for him a couple times - turned out good. Had to have a bite of our wedding cake (as small a bite as I could - just enough to say I had some). Now my 2nd hubby - he also loves fruit cake! I haven't made any for him. I have only seen fruit cake with all the marichino cherries, raisins and I don't like marichino cherries at all!! When I would help my mom make fruit cakes she never had any worry that I would eat a bunch of the fruit (maybe some raisin though). Growing up I was the only one who didn't like fruit cake. I suppose when my hubby gets his fruit cake this year I might take a small bite just to see if I like it now (except for the cherries, of course). (I do like cherries, but only the fresh fruit kind.)

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by meganne 10 Dec 2011

I don't like the maraschino cherries either, so I always pick them out before I eat it. LOL!

by designcrazy 10 Dec 2011

I use candied cherries in fruitcake not maraschino.

I love fruitcake, but it has to be good fruitcake (yes, there are some out there for the haters). Our favorite is a Whisky Fruitcake made in Mobile, AL by Three Georges, but it's gotten too expensive for us to afford!

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by katydid 09 Dec 2011

sounds wonderful!!

I do not like the heavy english fruit cake, especially at christmas or for weddings. Just do not like it. But I make delicious fruit loaves with cold tea. No butter in it, mind you I spread it with butter to eat lol. But is DELICIOUS.

I love fruitcake but because it is just me and hubby that enjoy it I rather make brandy balls or rumballs. YUMMY. Would you like to have the recipe? Marie

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by anangel 09 Dec 2011

Post the recipe, Marie. I would like to try it! Rumballs sound delicious!
Angel

by shuede 09 Dec 2011

Yes, yes, yes!!

by chenille 09 Dec 2011

Yes Please!

by meganne 10 Dec 2011

Now THERE is something I cannot put in my mouth, rum-balls, ieuw!!! LOL!!!

We just finished the last bit yesterday of the one I made last week! I used to not like fruit cake, but love it now, since I learned the ingredients that I like best and make my own! I like a lot of the candied cherries and lots of chopped pecans in mine. Now, I have to get busy and make a couple of more for Christmas! This one didn't last long enough for the rum to soak in! LOL
Angel

I first saw and ate fruitcake when we lived in England. Have been making it since then and my children love it, and mince pies and all the horribly sweet and heavy stuff that seem to go with the season. I know it should be done some six weeks or so before Christmas, but I'm usually late and this year's no exception, so I think I'd better close the laptop and hurry to the kitchen.

I love it, that is the only time I have Rum. haha

It gives me indigestion so I do not eat it!

YUCKY! Thats all I can say about it. Sorry you fruitcake lovers.............Janet

I like fruitcake, just doesn't seem like Christmas without it to me. My Mother learned to bake them in Home Ec class while in school. She tells me how she got a list of everything she needed and her Dad went to town and got it. They had to chop all the fruits & nuts, each girl in class make one. Just a few days ago she & I mixed up one, it is called "Mystery Fruitcake", first you bake a spice cake mix, crumble it & mix fruit & nuts then mix up a box of "Fluffy White Frosting Mix" stir all this together, pack into pans & keep in refrigerator or you can freeze it. It does keep well. MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone!!!!!!

I just love fruit cake, with marzipan and royal icing. A real Christmas treat. Love all the answers. Sarah.

I LOVE fruitcake! It was something my mom & I made together every year. It had great sentimental value to my mom. My parents were married 3 days after Christmas. The following day, the only food in the house was tea and fruitcake. I made sure they always had a small fruitcake for their anniversary breakfast.
Charla

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by anangel 09 Dec 2011

Sweet story; sweet daughter you are! What are we without our wonderful memories?!!
Angel

Like it but at the right time as it can be "heavy". We normally enjoy it with a bit of custard. I have a recipe for a lighter fruitcake - no nuts and not too many fruit, unless you really want to add it, but is still tasteful and moist.

I love fruit cake especially the no bake version using marshmallows and lots of cherries. I would like the recipe for the fat free version using black beer.

Love it especialy with thick Icing.

I'm in bewtween - I like it but I could live without it! I make a rather nice fat free version using black beer.

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by chenille 09 Dec 2011

Mmmm now that sounds interesting.Could you share the recipe?
Hugs, Nadyne

by ansalu 09 Dec 2011

That sounds delicious :o)
Give it to us please... *lol*
Greetings, Bettina

I'm afraid I don't like fruit cake. The sultanas remind me of dead flys.

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by meganne 10 Dec 2011

In a well cooked fruit cake you should not be able to distinguish the sultanas from the rest of the fruit. :-)

I absolutely LOVE fruitcake! Good to see I'm not alone.

hi there, i too just had to say i love it love it, the dark and the light.it is one of my favorite cakes.if done right it will stay and keep for a long time.i do not care for the bought ones.too sweet. when i bake them i can adjust the sugar and change it to the way i want it. used to bake them for weddings when i was younger and in my prime.lol.

love love love it....soozie

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by snowbird42 09 Dec 2011

when i made my daughters wedding cake the fruit was soaked in 1/2 bottle of rum and the other 1/2 drizzled over it when it was cooked the men thought it was a waste ...lol...soozie

by airyfairy 09 Dec 2011

Sounds just fine to me :)

Fruit cake and stollen are among my most very favorite holiday foods. All fruits, all recipes; they are fantastic. I don't really care for regular cake though.

Yummy, I definately like it, hugs S*

We love it.It is a tradition in our family.I have made different ones...like to try different recipes.I was a little late this year,usually I make them the end of October,just after Thanksgiving.Because of "stuff" I was late with the Christmas baking and with the result I just took my dark fruitcakes out of the oven about an hour ago,and in went my shortbread! :-) it's all good and now the house smells like Christmas!!
Love and Hugs, Nadyne

We love it. I make one every year.

I like it if my momma makes it and or someone uses her recipie nice and soft and good!!LOL!!

Me, I like it, but only the old Welsh recipe my mom and I used..and we soaked the batter for the cake with a liquor..I think it was brandy, but it could have been whatever we had on hand; my mom was a crafty chef with any recipe! This one she remembered from making with her aunts in Llandybie, Wales...way back when they stirred the batters by hand. That's how she made it too, even though she had an electric mixer!!

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by chenille 08 Dec 2011

Oh yea! We usually use rum to soak the cakes...and there is no way my mixer would handle the batter! Besides you have to make a wish while mixing it,and everyone has to take a turn!
Hugs, Nadyne

by meganne 10 Dec 2011

Nadyne you are the first person who I have heard say this besides me. My kids always took a turn 'stirring the love in' every year when I made fruit cake & pudding. :-)

Hate it, that rubbery fruit and heavy cake don't do it for me. I love angel food cake!

i love good fruitcake i never make one

I found that fruitcakes in US are very dry. Here in Australia, the biggest ingredient is sultanas (golden raisins to the US). I make a boiled fruit cake that basically has all the fruit caramelised, and it is very very moist.

I love it and make it.I have a huge commercial HOBART mixer(not the Kitchen-Aid) I Only give to people who ask for it.The BEST store fruitcake in the U.S. is either from Collin Street Bakery (feautered on the Johnny Carson Show) or Mary of Puddin Hill Pecan Fruit Cake.
Neither has alcohol but both are very good..

I love it ,This year i got anew reciep from an 86 year old who needs help doing hers .(she still emb. every day to)
now i am going to make hers when i get to town to buy the gum drops she puts in it lol hugs carolyn

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by noah 08 Dec 2011

I forgot to say that 50 plus years ago it was a good luck thing to try different peoples cakes !!!So i still do lol

by chenille 08 Dec 2011

Me too Carolyn! Love 'em!
Hugs, Nadyne

The only one I like is the one my mom used to make. I got her receipe when she passed away and I made it for my brother-in-law (he loved mom's)..so when he started eating it, tears came to his eyes and said it tasted just like mama's...it was a wonderful compliment and I was happy to bring back memories to all of us.

it just looks yuky..........my hubby likes it...

i found a good tasting one at walmart but it is not round it is small rectangle 12 oz the name is
"CLAXTON" Fruit cake old fashioned
it says choice of millions,taste good though

I haven't found a fruit cake yet that I like.

We always had one growing up and I still enjoy one every year. My mom would make them and soak some cheese cloth in brandy and wrap for a few weeks. Like the citrus fruits in the fruit cake and also in Christmas morning stollen bread.

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by chenille 08 Dec 2011

Sounds like our house! We just have to have stollen on Christmas morning. I even make it for our neighbours!

Have never liked it !!!

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by bevintex 08 Dec 2011

and what are those green things? lol

by theduchess 08 Dec 2011

Candied pineapple(colored green or red)

by obaachan 08 Dec 2011

AHHH .. now we know ! lol

by mops 09 Dec 2011

Candied angelica root is naturally green and in the Netherlands we use a candied pear shaped fruit called "sukade", no idea what that's called in English.

My DIL always makes them. But I am not too crazy about them. Can take it or would prefer to leave it!! Hugs, Mary

My Mother used to make a really nice fruit cake - that I enjoyed - but I don't eat it much these days.

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by asterixsew 08 Dec 2011

I only make one for Christmas each year and possibly a chocolate log too but that is not a fruit cake

I love it