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pipi_k

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19. Slacker!!!

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Sat Nov 1, 2014, 02:50 PM

Nov 2014

Too late now.

You should have made fruitcake in July,when all the Christmas stuff started appearing.

Seriously, though

I love fruitcake, but have never had home made. I'll bet it's tasty.

I had some fruitcake in my freezer from a Christmas long forgotten, took it out and left it for the local raccoon family. Well, apparently only one of them was brave enough to eat it. He's still carrying around the extra weight. I swear that furry beast must be close to 50 lbs.

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OK - two more hours of Halloween left: how soon should I make my Christmas fruitcake? [View all] hedgehog Oct 2014 OP

i started working on mine last week. you'd better hurry! they go so quickly because orleans Oct 2014 #1

I discussed the recipe with two of my kids today. I be taking dried fruit: hedgehog Oct 2014 #4

actually i was joking. i don't like fruit cake--but you make it sound quite good. orleans Oct 2014 #6

I'm looking over what I typed, and it sounds like I've already been hitting the Irish Mist! hedgehog Oct 2014 #7

(just so long as you don't be sneezing on the cheese cake...i mean fruit cake!) n/t orleans Oct 2014 #10

Using real dried fruit, they are great. That died square wtf is it stuff from the store, not so much uppityperson Oct 2014 #11

Yum! GoCubsGo Nov 2014 #18

Why not just regift the ones nobody ate from years past? pinboy3niner Oct 2014 #5

Oh Boy catnhatnh Oct 2014 #2

Never! pinboy3niner Oct 2014 #3

We have half of one left in the fridge from last year. My mother won't let me throw it out. mackerel Oct 2014 #8

If it's any consolation - I still have the Butterball turkey that our neighbor gave us last winter hedgehog Oct 2014 #12

Now shenmue Oct 2014 #9

You *make* fruitcake? malthaussen Nov 2014 #13

Why bother? sarge43 Nov 2014 #14

The only fruit cake I like is banana flavored. Baitball Blogger Nov 2014 #15

Mmmmmm....Banana cake soaked in rum..... hedgehog Nov 2014 #16

Easy enough. Do it now. Make your masterpiece. Coat in shellac. Never have to make it again. Liberal Veteran Nov 2014 #17

Slacker!!! pipi_k Nov 2014 #19

Now - then soak it in rum for the next two months csziggy Nov 2014 #20

This week should be fine jmowreader Nov 2014 #21