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?
No. Most Americans think of Fruit Cake as very heavy, something that you might get as a gift from some demented elderly relative and end up using as a door jam. Never homemade, comes in a tin. Nor do we have the tradition of having little trinkets in the cake that symbolize whatever..
It sounds like a fun tradition and if you can give me a recipe that doesn't call for nasty candied fruit I might actually making it.
And what kind of pie would you have at Christmas? ' />
Pumpkin, Pecan, or Chocolate Pecan.
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.
My mom had a couple old fruit cake tins handed down to her from my grandma that were used to store stray buttons and pins and other small sewing related items. I wish I still had the one filled with buttons because some of them were from before my grandma was married to my grandpa and many were handmade.
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I am confused. Do Americans not do cake at Christmas?
04/12/2011 10:59:04 AM
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chrimbo cake is the BEST!
04/12/2011 11:41:28 AM
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My family's Christmas is Second Thansgiving, but with bonus desserts. Mostly pie, cookies, and candy *NM*
04/12/2011 03:00:51 PM
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Or rather... Fifth Thanksgiving. Thanksgivings 2, 3, and 4 are all about Thanksgiving 1 leftovers. *NM*
04/12/2011 03:02:42 PM
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Cake?
04/12/2011 05:03:02 PM
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We don't have a sheet of icing?
04/12/2011 05:08:00 PM
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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
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No. (with other responses)
04/12/2011 05:03:51 PM
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its a fruit cake with a layer of marzipan and a layer of icing on top
04/12/2011 08:32:55 PM
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Plus with loads of brandy used to "feed" the cake over the month before you ice it.
04/12/2011 08:45:28 PM
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Christmas cake is horrid.
04/12/2011 07:25:59 PM
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There are other birds which it's "acceptable" to eat at Christmas, other than turkey.
05/12/2011 10:02:20 AM
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We do ham a lot Christmas
05/12/2011 01:01:03 PM
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Fruitcake, I guess. But we don't coat it with disgusting icing. And it's not really cake. *NM*
04/12/2011 10:12:21 PM
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I assume your Christmas cake is our Fruit Cake.
05/12/2011 01:25:07 AM
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Christmas Cake = yum yum ppig's bum. As are Fruit Mince Pies. And boiled pudding... and roast potato *NM*
07/12/2011 01:50:28 AM
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