A CONTEST - BEST USE FOR FRUITCAKE - Jimmy Buffett and Fruitcake?

I have no ideas what to use old Fruitcakes for.  A doorstop maybe?

I love the Buffett tune though.  He did 2 shows in Atlanta in '94 and I was at both of them.  If you ever read "Where is Joe Merchant" I seem to remember that Desdemona and the space station/bake shop were characters in the novel as well.

Great stuff.  I hope your husband survived the 12 year old fruit cake :-)

Merry Christmas!

Drench it in rum, light it on fire and use it to roast marshmellow for something truely good to eat...SMORES :-)

1.  Doorstops.

2.  Paperweights.

3.  Hide the keys under in the yard.

4.  Stack logs on in the fireplace.

5.  Serve to uninvited guests.

6.  Serve to invited gusts who overstay their welcome.

All that said, I do make a great fruit cake.

Begin with any pound case recipe and before baking, add a cup of glazed red candied cherries and a cup of pecan halves.

Simple and delicious.

The best use for a fruitcake is to test your goal-setting skills.  Making a fruitcake can take weeks of vigilant effort.  First you construct the cake, then you wrap it in cheesecloth and foil.  Next, you must unwrap it every week and drizzle dark rum into it.  Once it can present itself as a moist delicacy, it is ready to be eaten.  This takes the nth degree of patience and determination.

Love your fruitcake story!

My grandmother always sent me a Collins Street Fruitcake every year. It was wonderful....I made a hard sauce and always ate it on New Year's Eve as a celebration of the end of the holiday season.

http://www.collinstreet.com/

That's too funny. Didn't your husband notice the freezer burn?

I love good fresh fruitcake, btw!

Ok...this could probably be a Blog of its own. It is a story about a fruit cake in my town. There used to be two good friends (one has passed away now) both born on April Fools day. One year the first friend a dentist gave his buddy a fruit cake at Xmas as a joke as he knew the second guy a local business (Mike) man hated fruit cake. Mike put the cake in the freezer and gave it back to the dentist on 4/1. End of the story...no way. The dentist then froze the cake and eventually baked inside another cake and gave it to mike on his birthday (4/1). Several years passed with cake showing up each year until one year the Dentist had moved to a new home. He was landscaping and Mike had the fruit cake delivered to him at the appointed time only this time it was under three yards of gravel deposited in the center of the driveway. The next year Mike got it back under a load of Manure in his driveway. Mike then took the fruitcake and had put it in a chest freezer filled with water, froze it and delivered it on the birthday. Finally Mike and his wife were coming home late one afternoon from a weekend in Seattle his wife had given him as a birthday present. As they turned the corner to their home Mike swore as there was a large crane sitting in the driveway... the dentist had drained the freezer filled it with concrete (remains of the soggy cake inside) and had just had the crane lower the cake (I guess it was still a cake) into Mikes swimming pool (over the house). That was the last incarnation of the cake. As I recall the whole episode took about 12 years.

If it is too dry, crumble it up with fruit loops and milk and enjoy. If it is fresh and soft slice and place on a slice of wheat bread and eat it up.