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Fruit Cake Is Best With Fresh Ingredients

By Ginger O’Riley

Fruit cake can be a delicious cake depending on the ingredients. If the cake includes fresh fruit with a little flavour by adding brandy, coffee or cream, then you have a delicious fruit cake.

The secret to success is fresh fruit. I pick my own fruit from my miniature fruit trees. I know if I pick my own fruit, they are fresh. If I buy fruit from the food store, I do not know how many days, weeks or months they have been in refrigerated storage, in transit to the store. Losing a lot of their natural flavours in the meantime.

Fresh Fruit Off The Branch

I did not realise how good fruit tasted until I planted my own miniature fruit trees in the backyard and started eating fresh fruit off the branch. I suddenly realised there was a natural taste and a delicious flavour when the fruit are fresh, off the branch.

This is why I now use fresh fruit in my fruit cakes.

When I was growing up, fruitcakes were not always cooked with fresh ingredients and they created fear and stress when I had to eat a piece of fruitcake. If I could remember anything from my childhood, it was having to eat fruitcake.

Fear And Stress From Grandma’s Fruitcake

When I was growing up, there was nothing more stressful or feared during the holidays than grandma’s fruitcake. I know that my experience is not unique. Fruitcakes are feared all over the country.

The everlasting fruit cake is the bane of any holiday season. Fruit and flower baskets, Christmas ornaments, cheesy family cards, eggnog – all of these meet appreciation wherever they are given. Those tough, indestructible fruit cakes alone ruin the holiday season!

I have always been a fan of cooking – especially baking. I love to bake cakes and cookies, and I can’t figure out why in the world such a disgusting cake would become such an entrenched tradition.

A Good Tasting Fruit Cake

In my whole life, I have only met a handful of people who like fruitcakes – and many of them are fruitcakes themselves. I set out to discover if there were such a thing as a good tasting fruit cake.

Were they always these indestructible things that you could send in the mail, leave sitting for weeks, or even stack papers on top of without damaging in the slightest? Were they ever, in other words, intended to eat?

Many Different Recipes

I haven’t been able to find out where the much-maligned fruit cake originates, but I have discovered that there are many different recipes.

Most of the time, people are familiar with the bland, generic one. These cakes are dense, dry, and easy to preserve. In this day and age where we can have fresh food whenever we want, we are a little bit spoiled.

Few of us see the usefulness of having such a durable holiday fruit cake, but my guess is that, in earlier times, they were pretty handy.

In the winter when everything was dead and the ground was cold, having something sweet and doughy that you could snack on all year would be a rare luxury. So much for the uselessness of the fruit cake!

Add A Little Brandy

I have also discovered that there are some cake and fruit recipes that are actually quite good. If you add a little bit of brandy, for example, you can turn a bland fruit cake it is something delicious.

You can also add coffee, cream, or many other additions. Using fresh fruit, although not strictly traditional, will also make it lighter and tastier for people.

In short, there is no reason why you can’t make a fruit cakes that tastes good while still deserving that name. All it takes is a little bit of creativity.

I have decided to use some of fresh fruit from my miniature fruit trees and make my own version of a delicious fruit cake. I have included a little cognac for taste and flavour and voila! Everyone loves it.

Fruitcake For Dinner Party Dessert

I made two fruit cakes for a dinner party I was hosting a couples of nights ago. I served the cake as a dessert and it was finished as quickly as I served it. People wanted more fruit cake. They all came up with the Marie Antoinette quote about letting the poor eat cake.

A number of people even asked for my secret recipe with my secret ingredients. I only gave my recipe to those who promised that they will not pass my fruitcake recipe to others without my written permission in triplicate. That got a laugh.

I felt proud that everyone enjoyed my cooking and they wanted more of my delicious fruit cake.

About the Author:
Ginger O’Riley has written a number of humorous articles on food and cooking including Chicken Recipes, Slow Cooker Recipes, Low Carb Cooking, Potato Salad, Home Cooking, Bread Machine Recipes, Breakfast Recipes, Muffin Recipes.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.

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