mmmmm.... can't wait to bake with the kids this weekend. I'm down to only a few bites left of my first efforts.

Thanks for the recipes gang!

We gotta' nickname ya' "Awesome Aussie" because that is just Simply Awesome!

Thanks, but its not my work, its all DW, she's the Awesome cook !

Will pound cake do?, Have a bottle of Everclear that should work for the stove.

Lee

I love the way we think around here!

I've been off this forum for a while ... but this is a subject that is near and dear to my heart :-)

Thanks to those readers who posted recipes - I will try them out.
I thought the photo of the fruit cake on fire was pretty unique ... didn't even know that was possible.

Maybe Myth Busters need to be shooting fruit cakes from cannons, instead of real cannonballs?! It might be slightly less hazardous :-)

Pete #2

Just back from my local supermarket (Sainsburys) and their srcrumptious christmas fruit cakes are half price.
I notice it's not by stick on yellow stickers, but the barcode has been changed so it might be a chain wide move.
qjs

Thanks for bumping this thread Joey. DS and I are going hiking today and were just figuring out what food to take. Fruit cake will go nicely with turkey stew, gingerbread and hot chocolate for lunch.

Yum!

HJ

Christmas gift exchange with the siblings: got a bag of coffee beans from one, and a fruitcake from another. They were both gone as fast as a minnow swims a dipper!