I don't get it either.
Everyone wanted me to make them cakes every year. (The cakes are really expensive.) I said no, but I offered them the recipes, including a sister-in-law.
Fruitcake and Eggnog. Yay or Nay?
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I don't get it either.
Everyone wanted me to make them cakes every year. (The cakes are really expensive.) I said no, but I offered them the recipes, including a sister-in-law.
Great personal story. Loved it.
I know that fruitcakes are not inexpensive to make and they are somewhat time consuming as well, aren't they.
This thread has motivated me to try my hand at making a fruitcake.
I like both the dark and the light varieties, and with or without nuts.
I'm in the minority here I guess. I like both. In fact, I usually eat a little fruit cake, tuck it in my cheek and then swill a little rum egg nog. My Brando impersonation is the hit of the party.
I like eggnog. One of my friends is making some with Amaretto this year......I can't wait!
Don't really like fruitcake.....unless it's my Grandma's homemade "Pecan Cake". There is more cake than fruit, and lots of pecans. I have the recipe, but it looks kind of expensive to make.....and appears to take two days to make.
Don't really like fruitcake.....unless it's my Grandma's homemade "Pecan Cake". There is more cake than fruit, and lots of pecans. I have the recipe, but it looks kind of expensive to make.....and appears to take two days to make.
The recipe states that after you pour the cake batter into the pan, it needs to "rest" in the fridge overnight.Two days? Try turning the oven up a little.......
Well, if you didn't keep it up all night watching Julia Child reruns on PBS it wouldn't need to rest.
It was mostly Betty Feezor when I was growing up
It was mostly Betty Feezor when I was growing up
This is very confusing for me. Do you give the batter a pillow and a blanket while it rests? Does it snore? Need to get up in the night to use the "Executive Washroom?" What if it can't rest? Warm milk? A lullaby? What?
I think I remember Grandma covering it with a warm dishtowel, and ignoring the screams from the fridge during the night.
They are really expensive to make. More so for me because some of the ingredients are difficult to find peanut/nut free, and then I have to pay whatever they ask.
I usually cut up my fruit one day and mix and bake it the next because, yes, it is time consuming.
My recipe has no nuts and no rum. And I do not out any kind of icing on it.
It wonder if the frig light keeps it awake?
Maybe I'll try that next time. I cut the fruit one day and mix and bake the next. But I could cut and mix one day and bake the next. See if it improves the texture.
How far in advance did she make hers? I usually try to make mine by September. I wrap and store them in my cold room. (I put them in an old Coleman cooler so bugs don't get into them.)
Grandma's wasn't like much like a traditional fruitcake. We usually ate it a couple of days after she baked it.
It has a more cake like texture than traditional fruitcake.
She stored hers on a plate, on the kitchen table, with the baking pan as a cover.
I think you should make it and if it restless during the night lay a little "Soft batter warm batter little bowl of dough..." on it to put it back to sleep.
That's only for when it's sick.............
