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Does ayone actually like fruit cake?

Do you like fruit cake?

  • Yes

  • No

  • It's OK, I guess

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Gargen

Gargen

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A fruit cake ended up in the office yesterday. After everyone looked at it with disinterest for 24 hours, I decided to try it out. It wasn't bad by fruit cake standards, but I'm not really a fan of fruit cake. One other person did the same with the same result. Nobody else wanted to try it... because they also don't like fruit cake!

It's actually been quite the conversation piece though. Over the past 48 hours I've heard about 15 people say "Why do they even make these things?" without a single solid response from anyone. Nobody even knows anyone that likes them... yet they keep showing up year after year.

Surely, there has got be SOMEBODY out there that likes them, right? There has got to be some reason why they keep making those things.
 
Depends on the fruitcake. "Traditional" brown fruit cake...not really. Best use is for a door stop.

My wife makes a "Hawaiian fruit cake" with chopped macadamia nuts, coconut, candied mango, pineapple, and papaya. It's a "light" cake instead of the dark molasses type.
It's pretty good...for fruitcake.
 
Moist fruitcake with little cake and mostly candied fruit & nuts is tasty. Bad fruitcake is horrible and might as well be used as a hockey puck.
 
I like fruit cake.

A couple slices, slightly warmed with a bit of butter spread on them and with something warm to drink, all on a cold winter's night.

that's good eats.
 
Iron Woode said:
I like fruit cake.

A couple slices, slightly warmed with a bit of butter spread on them and with something warm to drink, all on a cold winter's night.

that's good eats.
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You have proved yourself to be a strange individual. 😛

Depending on style of said fruitcake, I might try it just to see if it's any better than the few other ones I've tried... but it's beginning to sound like it's simply the trend.

And I never want to make one myself, because I only like to gamble on my desserts when the basic premise is something I love in the first place. But if it's free, and I don't dislike an ingredient, I'll try any dessert. There are a great many ingredients people use in desserts that disqualify quite a few things - it always annoys me when everything is awesome save for the oddest addition.

I also loathe any kind of nut in any kind of cake - so wrong.
 
I cant stand fruitcake, but among my family, I'm rare. Most of them love it.

That being said, the last two weddings that I went to, both of family members, had chocolate cake and no fruit cake. Much better!

One of them had a rich chocolate cake with white chocolate ganache icing/frosting. I've never eaten anything that nice in my entire life.
 
Homemade moist fruitcake thats been given lots of brandy to drink? Very, very much so.

The dried out crumbly crap that you get in shops? Not so much.
 
I dont like chocolate cake, carrot cake, fruit cake or even lemon cake unless its made very well.
As such, people and businesses have a particularly nasty habit of making crappy fruit cake. Oh, and carrot as well.
Chocolate is generally given more respect which is why people love it so. Also its not as complicated as the others & less challenging to get right.
 
Never had it. Have always wanted to try it, but it seems they are kind of expensive to buy and didnt want to waste money to try it. Perhaps I will one day...
 
As long as there is plenty of fruit and only enough filling to hold it all together.
 
LookBehindYou said:
Never had it. Have always wanted to try it, but it seems they are kind of expensive to buy and didnt want to waste money to try it. Perhaps I will one day...
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Price out the fruit and nuts along with the liquor needed to make a batch.

Expect $50 worth of ingredients for 4-5 loafs
 
I'm a fan. I got one for Xmas(again), and it was made by some company down south that's famous for them(so it says on the label), and I enjoy it very much. I've only had a couple bad ones in my life, usually due to excessive drying.
 
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