27 Dec 2012, 5:56 am
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27 Dec 2012, 5:59 am
THERE ARE GOOD FRUITCAKES!! ! 
27 Dec 2012, 6:04 am
auntblabby wrote:
THERE ARE GOOD FRUITCAKES!! !
I can't believe you! I can't! I just cannot! It's unfeasable!
I'm sure there are, I just don't like them.
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27 Dec 2012, 6:42 am
i can't blame you, but i've managed to find one delicious fruitcake out of the 100, the remaining 99 were tolerable but less than fully delicious. 
27 Dec 2012, 11:06 am
Bloodheart wrote:
Yum - fruitcake is yum, especially with peel, nuts and cherries!
My favourite tradition of the holidays was making the Christmas cake...
We'd start the end of August or beginning of September making a really rich fruit cake with lots of sherry and brandy. The cake would go in a tin up on top of the panty, then every week the cake would get another glass of the sherry and brandy up until two weeks before Christmas (traditionally when we'd put up Christmas decorations, cake would be done the next day) when it would be covered in a lemon curd and then a thick layer of golden marzipan. A week before Christmas the white royal icing is added, and then on the eve of Christmas eve is when the actual decorating would take place. We had a few ornaments for the top of the cake that had belonged to my great grandmother on my mothers mothers side, such as an ice-skating Santa, that either decorated the cake or was placed on temporarily as a ceremonial gesture, we were also partial to edible silver balls and silver glitter too. Best fruit cake ever.
My favourite tradition of the holidays was making the Christmas cake...
We'd start the end of August or beginning of September making a really rich fruit cake with lots of sherry and brandy. The cake would go in a tin up on top of the panty, then every week the cake would get another glass of the sherry and brandy up until two weeks before Christmas (traditionally when we'd put up Christmas decorations, cake would be done the next day) when it would be covered in a lemon curd and then a thick layer of golden marzipan. A week before Christmas the white royal icing is added, and then on the eve of Christmas eve is when the actual decorating would take place. We had a few ornaments for the top of the cake that had belonged to my great grandmother on my mothers mothers side, such as an ice-skating Santa, that either decorated the cake or was placed on temporarily as a ceremonial gesture, we were also partial to edible silver balls and silver glitter too. Best fruit cake ever.
^^^ That is, I think, really a cool story. Seriously should be written into a book.
I make my own version of my Grandmother's fruitcake every year. Can I ask how the layers of frosting were made to adhere to the cake?
28 Dec 2012, 7:08 pm
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04 Jan 2013, 4:32 pm
Cake should not burn when you eat it. 
04 Jan 2013, 4:50 pm
