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…
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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.Â
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.
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Hate them. They remind me of an aunt who I disliked immensely. She used to make them.
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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
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ha, ha. Â 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. 🙂
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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. Â Hard + dry = door stop.
I don’t like the way it tastes.Â
I strongly dislike fruitcake – I don’t like all that stuff in it – green cherries, nuts – yuck!
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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!
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😆 Only you could make fruitcake funny. Great book Vicki!!
Fun post, Vicki! In theory, I like fruitcake – I like what it represents, the time the makers put in to it and the history/tradition. But in reality, I don’t like the taste. So I’ll keep in on a cake plate for a few days, to enjoy the pretty bits…and then it goes away.
Hi, Sylvia! Well, the only word funnier than fruitcake might be mincemeat. HMMMMMM. I have an idea!
Hi, Kristina! What can I say to help you become a lover? Did you know there are many other kinds of fruitcake other than the cherry dotted ones? There are!!! Happy holidays. vb
This is the first fruitcake poll I’ve ever seen! I enjoy fruitcake but always with warm custard dripping down the sides. Old Grannie used to pour an ounce of whiskey over her slice. It certainly is a disputed dessert item and a great conversation starter. Thanks for sharing!
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I used to really dislike fruitcake, but my Hubby loves it. So somewhere over the years, I developed a taste for it and now if it’s around, I eat it. 😆 I have a recipe I want to try, but have never gotten my act together early enough to actually buy the ingredients and get it started. Maybe someday when I have grandkiddlets!
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Vicki, you’re the only person I know who likes fruitcake. My mother-in-law made a moist fruitcake that was tasty and the only fruitcake I halfway liked. I’m not a fan. Too much dried fruit and jellied stuff. I do have your fruitcake story in my Kindle and I know I’ll love it as I do all your stories.
Hi, Gemma! Custard on fruitcake sounds yummy. Maybe as yummy as chocolate? lol
Hi, Sheila! There are many varieties other than the candied citrus and cherry ones. I admit I am spoiled by a bakery’s down in my part of the world. Hugs!
Hi, Cara! I think more people would like the fruitcake if the fruit was chopped finer. What do you think? oxoxo
Loved the poll. We’ve talked about where I sit on the poll. I do think that there are people who make fruitcake well and places where it makes a good doorstop!
Melissa
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Hi, Melissa! I agree with you some can bake and some can’t. I’ve had good red velvet and bad. hugs
🙄 I mostly fall in the middle. It certainly depends on who made it and how long it distilled 😆
Hi, Florence. You know, I’m not into the liquor soaked ones. Some are really strong and seem to mask the fruit and spices. You are so fun.