Fruit cake, also known as Christmas cake, or Sugar Plum Cake, is one of the traditions I grew up with and have held on to. I love Christmas cake. Hubby doesn’t, so most of the Christmas cake I bake each year is given away to those friends and family who enjoy it as well.
My mother’s recipe followed her to the grave, so I was on my own, looking for the perfect concoction. The first recipe I tried included sweetened condensed milk and corn flake crumbs, and refrigeration. Disaster. A few years and experiments later, I stumbled upon a recipe for “Sugar Plum Cake”. It is, for me, the perfect combination of candied and dried fruits, nuts, spices and alcohol.
Every year since finding this recipe, I mix up a batch or two about 8 weeks before Christmas. Like fine wine, or cheese, it improves with age.
So, what about you? Are you a lover, or a leaver?
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I have had bad fruit cake and goof fruit cake. Food is food for me haha, I will try anything once! That sugar plum cake though… yummy!
I’m a leaver, but then I’ve never had homemade, only the crap you find in stores.
I can see why you don’t like it then. Homemade is the very best!
I love Christmas Fruit Cake, I am always for trying new ones. Love it for me!
I have no idea. I’ve actually never had fruit cake before. I’d like to try it though!! (P.S. I came to your blog from Steph’s blog party. Here’s a link to mine: https://bernbakes.wordpress.com/. Followed!! 🤗🤗
Thank you for your comment. Hopefully you will like the fruit cake you first try. I avoid any of the commercial ones though – they just taste odd to me.
Hope so! 🙂😋
I have always been a leave it…but I am really trying to love it. It looks so good and it is so traditional, I will keep trying. It may be that I have not had a really well made one….
Hubby is the same way – just can’t quite like it though. Maybe that’s a good thing since he is diabetic.
I usually Just buy Christmas cake because I’m just lazy your recipe looks good though 🙂
Some day, I hope you will get to try home made to see how much better it is. (Not the corn flake recipe, though.)
I love fruitcake. I’m always on the lookout for a good recipe for it! When I was a kid in pretended to hate it like the rest of the kids but then I’d go back and eat it when no one was looking. 🙂 You’ve got some fun pictures! And i love your blog!
That is a funny story. Thank you for your kind comment.
I love it, I cannot leave it – Hope you will also visit and check out what we have cooking on my end. Thanks