Nerys

Who else likes and enjoys baking their own Christmas fruitcake? Which recipe?
I always do it from a cookbook I have had since late seventies. I started my home/kitchen in 1981 and have baked same the Light Fruit cake ( for a smaller 20 cm )1/2 recipe by Tess Mallos - Cooking in Colour cookbook.

SusieQOH

I have a recipe for fruitcake that's to die for. My Mom makes it every year. It's loaded with fruit and not that stuff I don't like (citrin or something)
Let me get it out and I'll post it. It's marvelous.

Barb in Louisiana

I've tried different recipes and non was as good as my mothers. Unfortunately, the recipe has been lost to the family for years.

I like a darker fruitcake. My friend recommended the Collins Street Bakery in Corsicana, TX deluxe fruitcake. That fruitcake is the only thing I have bought from Collins Street Bakery and it is the best I have ever found. I like as many pecans in the cake as there is fruit. The Deluxe Fruitcake is just right. I continue in my mother's tradition of adding a little bit of Apricot Brandy for some additional flavoring. Well, okay, sometimes I soak the fruitcake in the brandy, but only a couple of pieces at a time. Both enhance each other beautifully.

QuiltE

I've made Christmas Cake since I was married in 1974.
First was a recipe that my Mom found and thought would be good.
It was a darker more traditional cake and yes, was quite good.

Just a few years after, I found one through the old Farm Wife News magazines.
All whole fruit and nuts, so that when you slice it, it is like a stained glass window.
It's a lighter cake than the 1st, but with very little batter.
In fact the 1st yr I made it, I had it ready for the oven and got all teary-eyed.
We didn't have a lot of money at the time, and I was sure it was going to be a flop.
There was so little batter ... but it did stick together and was a hit! Money was not wasted.

For a few years I made both, but soon discovered that the 2nd recipe was always the first eaten.
Now, only the one gets made ... two 9"x13" cakes the end of October to let it age.
One more is baked in early December, so I am not tempted to give it away, and leaves me with "leftovers" to enjoy all winter long! No, not the least selfish, am I?

tropit

I love fruitcake and so does my daughter. We've made it a couple of times for the holidays, but we found that we were the only people in our clan that likes it, hence we were getting too fat eating it all ourselves. I'd love to see some other people's recipes.

~ C

Tothill

When I was a child a family friend made a Brazil Nut cake, I loved it. But she got dementia and could not remember where the recipe was when I asked about it. Her family had tossed her old recipes.

25 years ago I found a recipe for an apricot and coconut fruit cake. It was so good, but I love the recipe and although I have checked the magazine's website, the recipe has never reappeared.

I do not make it anymore, I limit my Christmas baking to a few staples that everyone enjoys.

My son and I worked on the list last night:

Nanaimo Bars
Brown Sugar Fudge
Almond Rocha
Butter Tarts
Mince Tarts

I buy shortbread from a local bakery. I do not need a whole batch of it and I am the only one who enjoys it.

M.Elizabeth

I have looked at their ads and wondered if the fruitcake was worth it. I like fruitcake, and my husband loves it. I may order one this year. Thanks for the info.

sherian

My mother in law made the best fruit cake ever, she made them for each family. We would go to a few stores for just the right nuts, fruit etc. She would not buy anything till she was sure it was the best. I never cared for fruit cake till I had Viola's it was so good. Everyone waited on there fruit cake reach year. I really miss that fruit cake.

sherian

Oops! I l also miss my mother in law Viola too!

Daffy Daphne

I love this post!

Daffy