Monday, December 6, 2021

Spirited

On my way home from work today I stopped by the nearest liquor store and picked up a bottle of brandy. Christmas is coming, and I'm making fruitcakes!



I'd already been buying dried fruits to use: cherries, dates, apricots, golden raisins, black raisins, prunes, and pineapple. They're all chopped up now and marinating happily in the whole bottle of booze. These are going to be "spirited" cakes!  The nuts I'm using (almonds, pecans, and walnuts) won't get added until the last minute. After all, nobody wants soggy nuts!

33 comments:

Mistress Maddie said...

I love all cakes, spirited or otherwise!!!

Cheers!

Bob said...

I like the spirits, but fruit cake not so much. I mean, I love all the things in the cake but ... yeah, I'll just have a brandy!!

Cro Magnon said...

I miss my wife making her own cake and mincemeat this year. I always had one demand of her; no nuts, and no green bits of angelica!

BootsandBraids said...

I'd leave a comment, but the word "fruitcake" has left me speechless. I was never here :-)

kylie said...

Yum!

Librarian said...

I am sure your cake will get everyone who eats it in the right spirit :-)

Sue in Suffolk said...

A whole bottle of brandy! Goodness - that will be a very happy cake!

Moving with Mitchell said...

Well, I don’t know if NOBODY wants soggy nuts. But I DO love me some spirited cake (and otherwise). But I especially love fruitcake.

Steve Reed said...

That sounds like a Great British Bake-Off joke!

Jennifer said...

((hic))) cheers!!

Jennifer said...

But this will be REAL fruitcake with quality dried fruit, not that nasty candied crap!

Debra She Who Seeks said...

Yum! Bring on that boozy fruitcake!

Jennifer said...

No nuts?! Why ever not?

Jennifer said...

Oops! Haha!

Jennifer said...

Yum, indeed!

Jennifer said...

That's the plan!

Jennifer said...

It's a lot of brandy, but then, it's a whole lot of fruit.

Ellen D. said...

It looks like it will be delicious but I never have liked fruitcake! Maybe I should give it another try!

Jennifer said...

I wish I could ship you a small loaf of it to try. ☺

Jennifer said...

I thought of that too!

Jennifer said...

I'd love to cut you a slice and pour you a cup of coffee!

Ms. Moon said...

I used to make my own fruitcakes. I think yours will be amazing!

Jennifer said...

As I said to Bob, it's different when you use good quality dried fruit instead of that awful candied crap!

Jennifer said...

Thank you! I hope so! I wanted to get an earlier start to let them "age" longer, but I think a couple of weeks will be adequate.

Abby said...

I'm not a fan of fruitcake, but I'd eat yours!

Dave R said...

In case you didn't know, I love fruit cake! Used to make them myself, without citron, to give away as Christmas presents.

Yorkshire Pudding said...

Did I detect some subtle innuendo in your last sentence? Perhaps it was the brandy talking!

Melinda from Ontario said...

I detested fruit cake in my youth but somewhere along the way I grew to love it. Maybe it's the brandy!

Margaret said...

Yay for the holiday spirit in cake form! Although I don't like fruitcake, I do love baking at this time of year. Now if I hadn't had an upstairs toilet leak and currently have my house torn apart...very bad timing indeed. :(

yellowdoggranny said...

soggy nuts and sweaty balls

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Ur-spo said...

Good for you!
I have longed to make a proper fruitcake, or get one.
I am going to make for Christmas dinner an ersatz Christmas pudding that looks like a sort of fruitcake.

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