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My family's Christmas is Second Thansgiving, but with bonus desserts. Mostly pie, cookies, and candy *NM* Burr Send a noteboard - 04/12/2011 03:00:51 PM
The wonderful Allie Brosh wrote a blog entry last year that I have just discovered (from a different blog) comparing cake to pie. Pie wins.

In point #5 she argues that pie has more usability over the year. And then has cake at Christmas being the lowest point for cakeyness. But this makes no sense! Christmas has a cake all of its very own! You make it months in advance and fill it with booze! How is this not wonderful?

Do Americans not do this?

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Help me, RAFO. You're my only hope. Sad as that is. Well. Also untrue. I could ask Twitter but I think the Americans are sleeping and then the tweet will be lost in the mists of time before they get up whereas this post will sit here waiting for you.
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I am confused. Do Americans not do cake at Christmas? - 04/12/2011 10:59:04 AM 1443 Views
chrimbo cake is the BEST! - 04/12/2011 11:41:28 AM 649 Views
Re: chrimbo cake is the BEST! - 04/12/2011 11:48:56 AM 695 Views
Chicken pot pies are pretty great. - 04/12/2011 07:18:47 PM 647 Views
Most do not. - 04/12/2011 11:46:09 AM 699 Views
Fruitcake - 04/12/2011 12:39:23 PM 776 Views
This - 05/12/2011 01:38:49 AM 655 Views
Christmas Cake is divine. - 04/12/2011 02:03:44 PM 694 Views
My family's Christmas is Second Thansgiving, but with bonus desserts. Mostly pie, cookies, and candy *NM* - 04/12/2011 03:00:51 PM 410 Views
No, generally we do not make cake for Christmas. *NM* - 04/12/2011 04:41:05 PM 313 Views
Cake? - 04/12/2011 05:03:02 PM 677 Views
We don't have a sheet of icing? - 04/12/2011 05:08:00 PM 660 Views
We have different icing. It is not typically a very dense, flat sheet of solid icing. Like fondant. - 04/12/2011 07:46:41 PM 930 Views
That's just for Christmas cakes and wedding cakes, usually. - 04/12/2011 07:58:55 PM 749 Views
Ah - 04/12/2011 08:33:29 PM 648 Views
No. (with other responses) - 04/12/2011 05:03:51 PM 963 Views
its a fruit cake with a layer of marzipan and a layer of icing on top - 04/12/2011 08:32:55 PM 754 Views
Plus with loads of brandy used to "feed" the cake over the month before you ice it. - 04/12/2011 08:45:28 PM 675 Views
i put three teaspoons on each cake once a week - 04/12/2011 09:35:23 PM 639 Views
You make pretty cakes! *NM* - 04/12/2011 11:53:16 PM 328 Views
thanks - 04/12/2011 11:58:40 PM 682 Views
Fruitcake is yummy - 05/12/2011 05:41:59 PM 596 Views
I dunno if they do cake, but Jason Biggs does pie. *NM* - 04/12/2011 05:18:22 PM 324 Views
Your boozecake intrigues me. - 04/12/2011 06:01:14 PM 697 Views
Christmas cake? Jeez, how awkward ARE you people? - 04/12/2011 06:21:06 PM 701 Views
I hate Christmas cake - 04/12/2011 06:35:49 PM 837 Views
Nope. My family has no Christmas-themed desserts. - 04/12/2011 07:17:38 PM 659 Views
Christmas cake is horrid. - 04/12/2011 07:25:59 PM 857 Views
We do ham a lot Christmas - 05/12/2011 01:01:03 PM 609 Views
Re: We do ham a lot Christmas - 05/12/2011 01:45:53 PM 764 Views
me and my first wife did steaks for Christmas one year - 05/12/2011 05:17:47 PM 600 Views
Pie in November and December. Cake the rest of the year. - 04/12/2011 11:52:31 PM 705 Views
I assume your Christmas cake is our Fruit Cake. - 05/12/2011 01:25:07 AM 662 Views
It is, as far as I can tell. - 05/12/2011 01:55:40 PM 992 Views
The icing looks so... thick. - 05/12/2011 05:23:44 PM 680 Views
we do cake sometimes but not usually - 05/12/2011 02:05:50 AM 622 Views
My family does... though - 05/12/2011 02:08:13 PM 708 Views
We typically have flan....with some vanilla ice cream. - 05/12/2011 03:57:50 PM 691 Views
I adore flan... *NM* - 07/12/2011 10:50:00 PM 448 Views
No. We do cookie swaps and gingerbread houses. *edit* - 05/12/2011 05:18:31 PM 701 Views
our family offerings are bread pudding and sugar cookies. - 05/12/2011 05:25:01 PM 694 Views
I have no concept of a "Christmas" cake - 05/12/2011 08:15:30 PM 608 Views
Message from the Queen to Americains: 'Let Them Eat Cake!' *NM* - 07/12/2011 06:16:59 AM 289 Views

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