who all has started making their Christmas fruitcakes?

**piperdbh** · 19th December 11, 07:55 AM

I know I like it! Do you make your own fondant?

**Paul Henry** · 19th December 11, 08:04 AM

Originally Posted by piperdbh

I know I like it! Do you make your own fondant?

Thank you,

I used to make all my own, but I confess to getting it from a supplier now, although sometimes I doctor it a bit!

**Dixiecat** · 19th December 11, 11:14 AM

Originally Posted by piperdbh

I bought a 25-lb. box of pecans this past weekend, and I have most of a 50-lb. box of candied cherries in the pantry. I just need some customers now!

Can you ship over the border?

**davedove** · 19th December 11, 11:37 AM

You all aren't fooling me. I KNOW that no one is making any new fruitcakes. There is but a single fruitcake in all the world and it just keeps getting re-gifted from one person to another.

**Meggers** · 19th December 11, 01:11 PM

Originally Posted by paulhenry

I decorated the cake this morning, it is a gift so it was completed a little earlier than our own! I hope they like it!

dang...thats gorgeous.

I am really weird about chunky things in my soft food so I am not a fruitcake eater...but I might just eat that.

**piperdbh** · 19th December 11, 08:17 PM

Originally Posted by Dixiecat

Can you ship over the border?

Yes, but not in time for Christmas.

What should I write on the outside of the box to keep the customs agents from "detaining" it? How about: "CAUTION: Fruitcake Inside" or "If you mess with this cake, a wild dancing woman will do a Schottische on your Adam's apple."?

**Bugbear** · 19th December 11, 08:50 PM

Originally Posted by davedove

You all aren't fooling me. I KNOW that no one is making any new fruitcakes. There is but a single fruitcake in all the world and it just keeps getting re-gifted from one person to another.

Strange... I eat a fruitcake every year around this time.

**Dixiecat** · 20th December 11, 11:11 AM

Originally Posted by piperdbh

Yes, but not in time for Christmas.

What should I write on the outside of the box to keep the customs agents from "detaining" it? How about: "CAUTION: Fruitcake Inside" or "If you mess with this cake, a wild dancing woman will do a Schottische on your Adam's apple."?

Would that I could do a Schottische, but the best I can threaten with is a nice swift Seann Triubhas shake to the nether regions. Can you say bub-ble-GUM?

**mookien** · 20th December 11, 01:05 PM

I'm running a little bit behind on my fruitcake this year. But, I now have all the fruit and the concrete is supposed to be delivered this afternoon.

**chemist93** · 11th February 12, 02:01 PM

I saw this thread when I was looking at the forum last year. I use a recipe from Ironman's cookbook for my fruitcake. The chief sweetener and liquid is apple juice concentrate. And it has dried fruit, instead of that maraschino fruit.