[Jamestown1630]

I’ve been trying to get around to my fruitcakes for the last few weeks. I’ve never made them with booze, but want to try.

This one from ‘Fine Cooking’ looks good:

http://www.finecooking.com/recipe/spiced-rum-fruitcake

I don’t understand why people don’t like fruitcake - my husband and I love it. When we make it, we keep some in the deep freeze to snack on all year long.

(I think I blame Johnny Carson, and his old joke from the 1960s, about how ‘there’s only one fruitcake in the world’ and it is just eternally re-gifted...:-)

[MightyMama]

I will probably break down and try making fruitcake eventually. But not this year. Southern Seasons makes *delicious* fruitcakes that I don’t even bother pretending to give as gifts; they are ALL FOR ME. I’m fairly certain they squeeze enough pecans in there to warp the space-time continuum, lubricated by an equal amount of butter.

[cherry]

my husbands family love fruitcake..I don't eat it....something about the nun making me stay after school for not finishing a piece of some kind of fruity thing...lol...

BUT I love to make them..I love the mixing, the baking, the smell of them and the look of them and I love soaking them in rum...

I'm thinking I'm going to start soaking my candies and nuts tomorrow and let them soak for several days and make them up later next week...