Tired of Fruit Cake at Christmas?

[mjarrels]

I thought this thread was going to be about 3pt ballist?

mark

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I thought this thread was going to be about 3pt ballist?

mark

I for one would be interested to know the connection between fruitcake and a 3pt ballist, but I don't even know what a ballist is. My research doesn't convince me it has anything to do with baseball, besides I think they call them ball boys any way. Sorry for the confusion.

 

[farmgirl19]

I couldn't get it to delete. Sorry!

 

[dave1949]

You know we used to live about 22 miles west of the Collin Street Bakery so I've been there many times, watched through a window when they were making the fruit cakes, and bought cinnamon rolls, cheese cake, etc. in their store, but never did try one of the fruit cakes. They just always seemed too expensive. However, they did look good, and I know in the mid to late '90s, they claimed to have shipped fruit cakes to every country that wasn't behind the iron curtain and to some that were.

Looking at baked goods in the window, that would be deadly for me. I love baked goods. I like a good fruitcake too.

$64.50 for 4-7/8 lbs does sound like plenty. Plus shipping I suppose. It probably costs more than I would guess to buy the ingredients retail, if they are good quality. I know I can spend an easy $8-$9 on just the ingredients to make something like a blueberry pie at home. So, good pie from a store, at say $12-$15, is reasonable by that measure although it sounds danged high.

We make fruitcake every couple years, usually in mid-November and let them age in a cool place wrapped in tin foil until around Christmas.

Thanks for the recipe Dennis. It sounds tasty, I'll print it out and add it to the stuff I mean to try someday. I do most of my hobby baking in winter.

 

[Depmandog]

If fruitcakes are what trips your trigger, your trigger has never been fully tripped until you have tried the cakes made by the Trappist Monks of Assumption Abbey in Ava MO

http://www.assumptionabbey.org/fruitcakes.asp

Order early, they ALWAYS sell out!!

 

[Bird]

I'll bet those monks make a good fruit cake, but it looks like they're a bit stingy with the pecans and since pecans are expensive, I can understand why.

 

[daugen]

I'm with you Bird, only four on top too!
maybe they are trying to cut down on fat grams...from a bazillion to a million.

 

[Bird]

Well, we happened to be in Corsicana today so I bought one of the little "Deluxe Fruit Cakes" at the Collin Street Bakery to see what they taste like. It's pretty good, and it certainly won't go to waste, but I'd say it's probably not good enough for me to ever buy another one for myself; i.e., not worth what they cost.