Holiday Fruitcakes for sale

[biglakejudy]

I will be offering holiday fruitcakes soon. Baked in a commercial kitchen with top-quality ingredients. (I don't use the house brand butter!) You have two kinds to choose from, regular and tropical. The tropical is made with dried papaya, pineapple, mango, and candied ginger aged in rum. The regular is made with whole red and green candied cherries, tutti-frutti, citron, and orange peel, aged in brandy. Both have pecans in them. They are wrapped in cloth and then foil. Before you make that face and say, I don't like fruitcake, then you haven't had mine.
The tropical recipe came my way when I was a member of the King Arthur Flour Website, Baking Circle. I had shared this recipe and one gal in the Virgin Islands couldn't resource the traditional ingredients so she flew with it. It's wonderful.
I will be selling them at the Dec 7th Christmas Bazaar along with English muffins, a shortbread cookie from another member of the Circle that came (both the recipe and the cook) from Ireland, and molasses cookies

[RandySea]

Homemade fruitcake is nothing like supermarket versions. Katie Bristol made really good fruitcake when she owned the Cinnamon Twisp bakery, but that era ended a year ago.

I look forward to trying Judy's version.

[ldsuhr]

Looking forward to some locally sourced fruitcake!!!

[muchaloza54]

How do I reserve one for my husband? And how much are they?

[Carolina]

i'd like one too How much?

[biglakejudy]

I have to price them after they are all baked. X amount of ingredients = Y amounts to how many cakes. Didn't used to have to do this. Just set a price and did okay. So far I have 191 dollars into fruitcake maker. But part of the problem is I buy good makin's. I have 12 small regular ones and will know tomorrow the price after I price the tropical ones.

[ML Harris]

I'd like to buy one of the tropical ones, too. Being a newbie, please tell where is the Christmas Bazaar?

[biglakejudy]

It will be in the Community Center where the Senior Thrift shop and the Library is.

[emily_sisson]

My parents, born in the 1920s made fruitcake at Christmas a couple of times when I was in high school. It was a big production, almost as big as when they’d make fudge. Ah, family memories of Christmas.

[biglakejudy]

the cakes are 3 1/2 by 6 by 2 1/2ish (some taller) The price for the regular ones is 35 each. There are a couple of smaller ones that are 25. The Tropical ones are 30 each with a couple of smaller ones. They will continue to be dowsed with either rum or brandy until the bazaar. If you want to reserve some please call 509 then 997 and 0775. there are 12 regulars and 11 tropical.

Regular
Candied red cherries
Candied green cherries
Tutti Frutti (glazed fruit peels)
Pecans
Golden raisins

Tropical
Dried pineapple
Dried mango
Dried papaya
Candied diced ginger
pecans

each batch takes
one pound of butter
a dozen eggs
sugar
flour
pineapple juice
lemon extract
spices
And a very big bowl.
Judy