I can remember my mother cooking her fruitcakes about this time each year right before Thanksgiving. I can remember the smell of cinnamon and other spices. I, for one (probably the only one) liked my mom's fruitcake with a hot cup of coffee. They were very moist and dark. I think she used minced meat and dates. I have also tasted some bad ones !! Does anyone else like them other than me. Yea or nay.....let's hear it.

I only like certain ones. My aunt used to make the best fruitcake. Her dad made homemade whiskey and she would take cheesecloth and soak it in that whiskey and wrap the fruitcake in that so that the fruitcake absorbed that flavor. Yum!!!! And I don't even like whiskey, but it made the fruitcake taste wonderful.

I have a recipe for fruitcake that is wonderful! It is basically nuts and fruits with a little bit of flour and sweetened condensed milk. Not at all like the doorstop type of fruit cake everyone thinks of.

And speaking of whiskey . . . One year for Christmas I decided to try making a rum cake. I don't know if I misjudged the amount of rum or what, but while the thing was baking it blew open my oven door!! (Never made the recipe again . . .)

Rubyaiyt, that is so bizarre! : O

Fruitcake is one of the foulest most disgusting things in the world! Hockey Puck yes, edible, no.

The dog won't even take a nibble - now that's gotta tell you something

Door stopper for sure

MOML loves fruitcake. I always get a small one as a stocking stuffer. Occassionally, he will share!

I Love fruitcake, but only my moms homemade kind. Some are really foul, and very heavy, like bricks they say. But hers is very good and I look froward to getting one evry year.

My Mother-in-law made the best fruitcake. I was with dates, pecans and some candied fruit. I haven't tried to make it myself but long for a piece of it every year. It was nothing like the store bought door stops.

If your Grandmother is older than 75, betcha she's got a recipe to die for. My Grandmothers fruit cake is delicious. Store bought? I vote for the door stop.

Have not found a fruit cake that I didn't like...yet! ;-)

My Mom's fruitcake tastes like cat pooh. Course, she's crazy and puts cat pooh in it. But we eat it because we love her.

double oh boy

Stop laughing at my mom!

Is the cat pooh candied????

She thinks the cat pooh IS candy...

Oh Boy!

I love fruitcake, provided it is made using a pound cake recipe and all the fruit is left out!

Ever tried Panatone? It's more of a cake with the candied fruits in it. It's the one good thing that came out of knowing my not-too-soon-enough-to-be-ex-son-in-law!

I have never had fruit cake. They don't look like they would taste very good, so I haven't had the guts to try one. Some of the horror stories make them sound not worth trying...

I can't stand the type made with very little or no flour. Basically it's fruit, preserved to last 3 lifetimes of the person who eats it, and sugar yucky!

I do love the kind that are spice cake and fruit with whisky or brandy. MMMMMM

Anonymous, here is the recipe for my fruitcake. Oh, and even though it has rum, it isn't the one that blew my oven door open.

Fruitcake

1 lb. pecan halves
1 lb. brazil nuts
1 c. coconut
2 lbs. whole pitted dates
1/2 lb. candied cherries
1/2 lb. candied pineapple wedges
1 lb. dried apricots quartered
1 c. flour
2 cans (14 oz ea.) sweetened condensed milk
1/3 c. light rum plus extra rum for aging fruitcake

Grease 2 9x5 loaf pans. Line bottoms with wax paper. In large bowl combine nuts and fruits. Add flour, toss. Add sweetened condensed milk and rum; mix well. Spoon into loaf pans, press down evenly. Bake 1 hour 15 minutes. Cool in pans on wire rack 1 hour. Remove from pan, peel off paper.

Turn right side up. When completely cool, drizzle about 2 tablespoons rum on each loaf. Wrap in foil, let stand 24 hours before slicing.

280 calories in each 1/3" slice.

Enjoy!