Homemade Fruitcake Recipe Soaked in Rum & BrandyFruitcake Soaked in Alcohol Moist & Full of Butter Nuts Sugar Spices
Forget the holiday fruitcake jokes! Delicious moist fruitcakes full of butter, brown sugar, spices, brandy and rum soaked fruits and nuts. Mini loaves make great gifts.
This is not the typical store bought fruitcake. It is loaded with alcohol and should be kept away from small children and pets. Do not send one of these fruitcakes to your child's teacher or the pastor. It is however, one of the most delicious and moist fruitcakes you will ever taste. Wrap one up in colored cellophane and ribbons and send one to impress the boss. Fruitcake JokesEveryone has heard the fruitcake jokes. They're heavy as bricks, used as doorstops, aircraft wheel chocks and railroad ties. "Nutty as a fruitcake" is a derogatory term meaning nut-job or completely insane. "In the United States, the fruitcake has been a ridiculed dessert. Some blame the beginning of this trend with Tonight Show host Johnny Carson. He would joke that there really is only one fruitcake in the world, passed from family to family" says Wikipedia. "Ask The Fruitcake Lady" starring Marie Rudisill was a popular feature on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. This eventually lead to her book "Ask the Fruitcake Lady: Everything You Would Already Know If You Had Any Sense" by Marie Rudisill, Hyperion (November 1, 2006). Forever Fruitcake ~ An Urban LegendStories have been told of "forever fruitcakes" that are many years old and have gone through the entire family and then some. The giver ends up getting the same fruitcake back 10-20 years later. The term re-gifting would definitely apply to fruitcakes. Nobody ever eats them. It's an urban legend. Fruitcakes Around the WorldMost American fruitcakes are traditionally heavy with fruit and nuts. German fruitcakes are called Stollen and are coated in powdered sugar. The Italian versions are called Panettone and Panforte. Other European fruitcakes are generally lighter, moister and are rich in butter, fruit and alcohol and sometimes iced. Some small companies and local bakeries still soak their fruitcakes in alcohol, and are rather tasty. Order fruitcake online from these companies:Collin Street Bakery since 1896, Grandma's Fruit Cakes since 1900, Claxton Fruit Cake since 1910, Assumption Abbey Fruitcake (Trappist Monks) since 1950. Homemade Drunken Fruitcake Recipe
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Makes 5 large loaves. Mini Dessert Breads for Christmas Gift Baskets
Resources: collinstreet.com, grandmasfruitcake.com, claxtonfruitcake.com, trappistmonks.com
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