Please help me give a big holiday welcome to Vicki Batman, author of The Great Fruitcake Bake-Off.

Thanks for visiting, Vicki. The blog is yours. Take it away1

The very best holiday dessert is…

 

Fruitcake! It contains colorful and sugary cherries, pineapples, and citrus rind. Nuts. Spices and enough batter to hold the confection together.

So why do people hate it? Why do some love it?

I did a *scientific* poll of friends and family and received these answers:

Likes the fruit.

I LOVE fruitcake! Love all the ingredients, the texture, and because it reminds me of my mom.

I am one of those people who does like fruitcake, especially homemade ones.  Not so crazy about the store-bought kind, though.  They tend to be too gummy.  But a good fruitcake with lots of fruit and big pieces of nuts, yum!

I don’t like the fruit in it. It’s weird. I love the nuts, but not the fruit.

The taste. It’s bad. *shivers*

Sadly, I can’t get specific – I only remember having a bite of what I thought should be a tasty treat and having a hard time chewing and swallowing and refusing to try again – I was an adult.

I think it tasted like rotten fruit!! Gag me with a spoon!

The only one I like is from Corsicana (I think that’s the fruitcake capital!). The others are too hard and the fruit isn’t real. Overall taste is bad.

I don’t like the fruit. It’s like hard jelly. 

In a perfect fruitcake world, I like it because it’s fruit and cake and nuts and alcohol and, if you’re lucky, chocolate.  What’s not to like?  A bite of fruitcake with a cup of hot tea after shopping on a REALLY cold winter day would perfectly hit the spot. In Texas climate reality, it is too, too, too – too dense, too gooey, too sticky, too chewy, too sugarsugarsugary, and toooo much.  It wears me out.

 

Hate them. They remind me of an aunt who I disliked immensely. She used to make them.

 

If I am going to incur the calories in any cake, it better be something that tastes really good. Fruitcake need not apply. Taste and texture

 

ha, ha.  I have never liked dried fruit.

DISLIKE fruitcake. Everything about it. Smell, texture, taste. And especially the density. I like my cake fluffy and light. Don’t much like carrot cake either. 🙂

 

I admit I’ve never tried it but the way it looks just turns me off.

I like a good fruitcake which is moist and has lots of fruit and rum in it.  Hard + dry = door stop.

I don’t like the way it tastes. 

I strongly dislike fruitcake – I don’t like all that stuff in it – green cherries, nuts – yuck!

 

The consensus from the naysayers seems to be they don’t like the fruit and the gummy cake I don’t know where those people went shopping, but the cake I grew up with isn’t like this at all.

So…I wrote “The Great Fruitcake Bake-off” because I do like fruitcake (and saying the word makes everyone giggle). It’s especially tasty when dipped in chocolate, but then, anything with chocolate tastes great (except for bacon. No-no-no. Amend to all meat and veggies).

So if you are interested in a little fruitcake fun and romance, try “The Great Fruitcake Bake-off”, available at: http://bit.ly/HXeo7h

Find me—Vicki!—at: http://vickibatman.blogspot.com

Happy Holidays!