Freedom from Fruitcakes

[patgund]

Coldstone Creamery is having a "freedom from fruitcake" promotion

http://www.coldstonecreamery.com/fruitcake_freedom/index.html

Bring your unwanted fruitcake into any Coldstone and recieve $5.00 off the cost of an ice cream cake.

I presume the fruitcakes brought in will be used as bricks to build more Coldstone stores........

Comments

[firedrake-mor.livejournal.com]

I swear, I must be one of the last few people left on earth who actually likes good fruitcake.

How is that defined? First of all it does rather need not to have the texture of building materials. This can be accomplished by marinating it with whatever your traditional alcohol is, or by at least using a recipe that doesn't result in advanced brickification. selenesue has an excellent "spicebread" recipe that makes a really good fruitcake.

Of the fruits and nuts: I'm more fond of dried fruits than candied ones, though I am left with a left of the candied citron from when I was a kid. I don't even mind green-dyed pineapple chunks or cherries, but give me raisins and dates, dried apricots and apples. I prefer a female fruitcake -- that is to say: no nuts. Some people like walnuts or pecans, but I don't think fruitcake should crunch either from nuts or petrification.

I was actually very pleased when my prize from the gift exchange at Angels Yule last year was a t-shirt that said "got fruitcake?"

. . . all of that having been said, Coldstone's ice-cream cakes are good, too . . .

[marymont.livejournal.com]

No, you're not the only one. I love fruitcake. Even the classic fruitcakes that people sneer at (as pictured in the icon) is one of my secret fondnesses, so we should agree to get together sometime and eat fruitcake. If you'd like, I'll share my grandmother's "Date Nut Loaf" recipe, but you claim not to like nuts in your fruitcake, so I recommend you follow her insistance that this isn't fruitcake.

[silkensteel.livejournal.com]

I too like a good fruitcake. And I *abhor* those glacee'd bits of nylon.

Make your own fruit. After Christmas, actually around February when they start showing up, get a load of cheap blood oranges, ones with nicely colored peels, and candy the peels. When dry, jar them and set them aside.

Around the summer, buy an assortment of unsulphured, uncolored dried fruits from Trader Joe's. Dice them up, put in jars with the diced up candied orange peel, add about 1/4 jar of rum. Add nuts if you like, so they won't be crunchy by the time the fruit is ready. Add `rum to about 1/4 depth, seal the jars, and turn them over every few days. Keep doing this until it's time to bake the cakes. This also works for Panettone, which is what I prefer to make.

But I may just do fruitcake this year. Dunno yet.