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[darchildre]

Help me make a baking decision.

So, I make a fruitcake for Yule every year - half of it gets put on the Holiday Dessert Table, and half of it goes into the freezer for me to eat at other times throughout the year. I really like my fruitcake; my family isn't as into it.

Last year, right around the holidays, I stumbled across some recipes for panettone, which looked really good, and I started thinking "Maybe next year, I will make a panettone instead of my normal fruitcake!" And now I can't decide, but I need to make a decision soon because the fruitcake has to cure for a month before Yule. I'm also a little tempted to make both, since I don't have to make them at the same time, and simply put the whole fruitcake in the freezer for me. That seems a little silly, though.

Thus, a poll:

Poll #27828

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Fruitcake or panettone?

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Fruitcake
5 (31.2%)

Panettone
3 (18.8%)

Both!
8 (50.0%)

Comments

[corvidology]

They are very different animals... erm, cakes.

Fruitcake which terrifies a lot of Americans because here it's usually very dry and booze free is, well, fruitcake and Panettone is more like a lightly spiced sponge cake studded with some dried fruit.

Thanks to knowing an enormous number of Italian-Americans in Ohio I ate a bunch of Panettone.

[darchildre]

That's very true. (I will be extremely arrogant here and say that while my fruitcake is alcohol, it's not dry.) It's more that I'm trying to decide whether to do a new thing that is exciting but might not turn out well, versus an old thing that I know is good but is familiar, or both, which seems a little excessive.

[corvidology]

It's one of those things I find myself pondering every year here at the holidays. Do large numbers of Americans hate fruit cake because the fruitcake here is mostly terrible or is the fruitcake mostly terrible because they don't want to eat it anyway. There are jokes here about how no one's made fruitcakes in years, they just gift the one they received the year before.

MG was very pleasantly surprised by fruitcake in England the first time he spent Christmas there.

I have every confidence that with your mad baking skills you'd nail Panettone but then would you be disppointed not to have fruitcake in your freezer?

[frenchroast]

I vote for both or Panettone.