Give! Give!
I have a recipe from an ancient NYT Cookbook.
Forced to eat Clackston between 1950-1965. Respect myself too much to continue today.
We need an Other option! I’ve never tried a fruitcake I liked, or made one at all. But I’m willing to believe that somewhere out there is a fruitcake that I’d like.
You left out “I love it, but have become allergic to walnuts and pecans and can no longer enjoy the awesome-ness that is a well-made fruitcake, woe is me!”
Rhubarb and peanut fruitcake with a dash of cilantro is fantastic.
Someone posted a recipe in a thread a few years back. I copied it and will repost it later. It’s quite involved and takes most of a week IIRC.
I love it, but don’t buy it, just make it.
Yes, that’s the one!
It’s on my Christmas list, and I can’t wait to get it!
A nice cuppa and some fruitcake. One of life’s simple pleasures.
I love fruitcake.
And yes, another vote here for Collins Street Bakery.
I can’t vote, you do not have an option for love it, make it and refuse to buy it.
Homemade fruitcake can be marvelous if you get the right recipe. commercial stuff sucks if you don’t like the artificially colored fruit bits. I use my own candied peels, dried fruits and nuts that are not loaded with artificial crap. I freeze orange, lemon and lime peels until I have enough and then spend a Saturday making my own candied peels and ginger strips. Leftover syrup from candying can be used for other projects now that it is heavily flavored/scented with citrus and ginger.
Yep, this fits me as well. And I’ve wasted too much money already trying different ones, so I gave up. I don’t think I have the energy to make one.
I love fruitcake but I don’t care a whole lot for ones with a lot of nuts, so I think those ones from Collins Street would probably not suit me, even though I am in Texas and could actually go there. I used to get one that I think was made by Hostess; it was a small loaf about 1 x 2 x 5". I loved it because it had a lot of fruit and it was small enough that I could eat the whole thing and not feel guilty. Since I knew no one else who liked fruitcake that was important. Now I have one friend who likes fruitcake too so we split one when we find a good one. It is important to find a nice moist one, since they are quite high in calories and you don’t want to waste all those calories on something not wonderful. Last year, wierdly enough, I found the best fruitcake I’d had in years at the Big Lots. Really, it was good.
Now I’m hungry.
You don’t have enough options in the poll for me to vote.
My answer is “I will eat it if it’s done right.”
I don’t buy it because I’ve never found one that I like from a store.
I don’t make it because; well just because it’s not something I’m interested in making.
A colleague of mine makes it, and it’s awesome!
I make it but don’t buy it. I like to make a dark sherry soaked fruitcake with pecans, crystallized ginger, dried cherries, and raisins. Dark, spicy, boozy, sharp. Yum.
If this had been an option I would have picked it. Mama made icebox fruitcake that was a lot like date/nut roll and was almost a candy instead of a cake.
The baked kind remind me too much of Grandmama’s things that were the rave of all but me. That Claxton stuff is just like hers and I detest it.
I voted “I can go either way”, but that’s not the whole story. I’m not really interested in it, but I’ll eat a piece. I make it every year, though, because my father adores it.
Ditto.
Also no option for never having tried it. I think we got a small one in a box one year (something like a McDonald’s pie size), but we didn’t find it until a month later and I wasn’t sure if I should try it.
I didn’t vote, because I love it, but neither make it nor buy it.