Boozy Christmas Fruit Cake

How Do You Feel About Fruitcake?

  • Love it! I want some every chance I get.

    Votes: 12 52.2%
  • Hate it! I always turn it down.

    Votes: 5 21.7%
  • Can take it or leave it! It depends on my mood.

    Votes: 6 26.1%

  • Total voters
    23
It seems fruit cakes are loved around the world. I found recipes for Chinese fruit cake, Mexican fruit cake amd Middle Eastern fruit cake. Sounds like you can enjoy fruit cake anywhere you go. Admittedly, they don't fit our definition of a holiday fruit cake, but they still look delicious!

Chinese Fruit Cake Recipe:
http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/prt/0,1718,151183-230199,00.html?

British Born Chinese Food

Mexican Fruit Cake Recipe:
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/...fruit-cake-with-cream-cheese-frosting-1253494

Sisters Love to Cook blog

Middle Eastern Fruit Cake Recipe:
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/middle-eastern-fruit-cake/7c2d2e90-7c7a-4567-94dc-567b4756aa22

Taste.com
 
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It seems fruit cakes are loved around the world. I found recipes for Chinese fruit cake, Mexican fruit cake amd Middle Eastern fruit cake. Sounds like you can enjoy fruit cake anywhere you go. Admittedly, they don't fit our definition of a holiday fruit cake, but they still look delicious!

Chinese Fruit Cake Recipe:
http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/prt/0,1718,151183-230199,00.html?
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British Born Chinese Food

Mexican Fruit Cake Recipe:
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/...fruit-cake-with-cream-cheese-frosting-1253494
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Sisters Love to Cook blog

Middle Eastern Fruit Cake Recipe:
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/middle-eastern-fruit-cake/7c2d2e90-7c7a-4567-94dc-567b4756aa22
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I really like the look of the middle eastern version. Seems from the recipe that it won't be too sweet.
 
According to Valerie Lugunja, known as "A Canadian Foodie," the fruit cake is a tradition on the Canadian praries.

"The Christmas Fruit Cake is as fundamental to a Canadian Christmas as the Christmas Tree itself. It is as much a part of the holiday feast as the turkey on the table."

Fruit Cake or Traditional Canadian Christmas Cake with Bourbon Recipe: (you'll have to scroll to the bottom of the page)
https://www.acanadianfoodie.com/2013/12/07/traditional-canadian-christmas-cake-or-bourbon-fruit-cake
 
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According to the blog, Food Lust People Love (I did not make that up!), Australians "lust" for Aussie Boiled Fruit Cake. It looks good, but the name sort of turns me off. Boiled fruit cake sounds a little odd, but hey to each their own. @Cavalry Charger, are you familiar with this?

Aussie Boiled Fruit Cake Recipe:
http://www.foodlustpeoplelove.com/2015/12/aussie-boiled-fruitcake.html

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LOL...never been a fan of fruit cake, even though I occasionally come across as one :wink: Sorry, not familiar, nor tempted, but then again I'm not sure of the alcohol content either...could make a difference!
 
According to the blog, Food Lust People Love (I did not make that up!), Australians "lust" for Aussie Boiled Fruit Cake. It looks good, but the name sort of turns me off. Boiled fruit cake sounds a little odd, but hey to each their own. @Cavalry Charger, are you familiar with this?

Aussie Boiled Fruit Cake Recipe:
http://www.foodlustpeoplelove.com/2015/12/aussie-boiled-fruitcake.html

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Food Lust People Love
This doesn't look and sound like what I grew up with. I suspect my grandmother, mother and mother-in-law were most using a traditional English recipe. No matter. I try all of the above! :D
 
I tried to cook a fruitcake once...that was enough :tongue: I burnt the you know what out of it on the outside, and the inside couldn't be resurrected either! I blame the recipe, of course :wink: 'Disaster' doesn't come close to describing the outcome. 'Scarred for life' is probably the closest description I've got in terms of the effect it had on my teenage psyche :redface: :D
 
Fruit is only good when homemade, otherwise I can take or leave it - mostly leave it! The bricks sold commercially are gross doorstops. Bakery fruitcake is the next best substitute if you don't have the time nor skill to bake one yourself.

Don't forget Japanese Fruitcake, which seems to have lttle connection with either Japan or Fruitcake.View attachment 169765
It may have its origins in the southern US.

Hmm...the look of this reminds me of a 'naked' hummingbird cake, which is a popular Southern dessert.
 
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Fruit is only good when homemade, otherwise I can take or leave it - mostly leave it! The bricks sold commercially are gross doorstops. Bakery fruitcake is the next best substitute if you don't have the time nor skill to bake one yourself.



Hmm...the look of this reminds me of a 'naked' hummingbird cake, which is a popular Southern dessert.
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I was thinking that, as well!
 
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