Comments on: Cake Week Thursday: retro faux-fruitcake?

By: Cake! Because Christmas. : Historiann : History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 02:23:50 +0000

[...] orange-scented fruitcakeCan you believe it? Susan actually sent me a cake! It’s her orange-scented fruitcake, and we are having a hard time keeping it whole until [...]

By: Dr. Koshary

Dr. Koshary — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:05:25 +0000

Blech. That is all.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:25:01 +0000

And Susan: I love fruitcake! I’d be thrilled to try yours. Good fruitcake is really good, but there is nothing worse than bad fruitcake.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:53:07 +0000

My mom made that too, Perpetua: Chocolate Eclair dessert, which was made with vanilla pudding mixed with Cool Whip, interleaved with layers of graham crackers. The top layer of graham crackers was frosted with chocolate frosting out of a can, and then the whole pan was left to sit for half a day or so before serving. Pretty good stuff!

By: Perpetua

Perpetua — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:06:15 +0000

One my aforementioned grandmothers made a dessert that turned out decently with graham crackers, instant pudding (counts for Jello, in my book), chocolate chips, Cool Whip, margarine, and corn syrup. It was a chocolate eclair dessert. Much better than those horrifying “pink salad” confections that we were served with every major family meal (Jello-and-marshmallow-with-savories).

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 06:37:43 +0000

Oops, typo: if you insist on marshmallows they would be a topping, sort of like a meringue.

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 05:39:48 +0000

I was going in the direction of a pie with a graham cracker crust. Make a custard with the evaporated milk, cointreau and eggs (off the list, but…); add raisins, dates, and walnuts. If you insist on walnuts, they would be a topping. Except marshmallows are one food I will not eat. Never would. So if I had my druthers, I’d omit them.

Also, we haven’t mentioned the ritz cracker “apple” pie, which I have never tasted but imagine was awful.

And to end the nasty cracks about fruitcake, H’ann will receive my fruitcake this year. Harumph.

Nicoleandmaggie, Martha Stewart’s method of dealing with pomegranates is not, I gather the easiest: cutting in half, putting in water and washing the arils out. You don’t get coated in pomegranate juice.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 04:38:54 +0000

What the hell would that be, exactly? (Other than a mess that someone NOT ME would have to clean out of the pan, thankyewverymuch?) Graham cracker brittle?

My s’mores idea was better.

By: Fratguy

Fratguy — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 04:20:29 +0000

Melted marshmallow thinned with the condensed milk and butter (think rice krispie treat or wreath cookies) coarse crush half and powder the the other half of the Graham crackers and wet with the milk and or liqueur as well. Add a heat activated leavener (like peanut brittle) and fold in the goo at a much lower ratio than for the treats or cookies along with the gubbins and pop into the oven.

By: Comradde PhysioProffe

Comradde PhysioProffe — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 03:26:08 +0000

Sounds fucken narshty! As far as orange liqueurs, I have always been partial to Cointreau.