re: #64 mmmirele

My mother used to send me a Collin St. Bakery fruit cake every December when I was in college. I am no fruitcake fan, but there were a bunch of us who stayed in the co-op across the holidays and I used to share those fruitcakes, which were devoured. No meals were being served so yeah, some people made a meal out of that fruitcake. But not me.

Mom would get the Claxton fruit cake bars every holiday season. Mom would put them in the freezer, slice them real thin and then put a shmear of cream cheese on a slice. Mom did her magic and make them edible.

One year we got the Harry & David fruitcake that is more of a confection and dad literally gobbled up half of it at one setting topping slice after slice with whipped cream.