Fruitcake has been a Christmas tradition in my family for generations. When it was nearer to Christmas, mom would frost the cake (royal icing) and then decorate it with holly and berries
Cool completely, drizzle with more Bourbon and then douse with powdered sugar. 1 cup Bourbon more for the top. 5 squares unsweetened chocolate. 1 cup Bourbon more for the top. 5 squares unsweetened chocolate
Come Christmas you will have a very very rich fruit cake. The night before you cook this place all the fruit fruit peel and nuts into a bowl and soak for 12 hours in the brandy and orange juice
Place raisins and rum, (I use apricot brandy but any flavor would do) in a small microwaveable bowl. Microwave, uncovered, on high for 1 minute to warm raisins so they will soak up brandy
I would shy away from eating a commercial fruitcake and pray that i would not get one for Christmas but i would bake my version year after year cos i have tweaked it to my liking - no candied citron but use the zests of oranges and lemon
Salted Caramel Sweet Square Starbucks Wannabe bars is oh so very yummy. I love Starbucks little petite collection of goodies but let me tell you the price isn’t so petite
Fruit cakes are often served in celebration of weddings and Christmas. Fruit cake (or fruitcake) is a cake made with chopped candied fruit and/or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and (optionally) soaked in spirits
Christmas means thinking about gifts (no C. ) and something I have always loved, fruitcake. The earliest recipe I could find that still resembled what I love at Christmas came from Elizabeth Ellicott Lea's Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers, which I found as an ebook here
I know it’s not a good time to post the recipe of a Christmas Cake in the month of January. In our childhood days we used to buy these special fruitcakes from our favorite shops
I never used to get terribly excited about Christmas cake or Christmas pudding. Having come from an Eastern European background, the entire concept of a traditional Anglo-Saxon Christmas cake or pudding was completely foreign to me and not to my taste
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