Not Your Typical Holiday Fruitcake
December 23, 2010 at 11:38 pm Leave a comment
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Holiday traditions are important (and fun) markers of the season. Whether long-established or recently conceived, pick an activity that you can joyfully call your own. Make vibrant wreaths or sew a quilt for the local homeless shelter – the options are endless!
This year, I decided to take a page out of Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory” and try my hand at baking delicious fruitcakes for our family’s Christmas Day luncheon. The store-bought versions with their strange neon-colored fruit bits have never appealed to me, so I was excited to come across this fabulous homemade recipe from the Beekman Boys (Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge). Substituting as many organic ingredients as I could, my two fruitcakes are currently “finishing,” which is essentially leaving them alone at room temperature for a few days so the dough becomes moist from the rum-soaked fruit.
It’s not too late to bake your own organic fruitcake for the holidays. Finishing can be anywhere from 1-3 days, so soak your fruit tonight, bake tomorrow morning and be ready to serve for Christmas dinner on Saturday – or save it for New Year’s festivities. Bon appetit and happy holidays!
Entry filed under: GreenTV, Organic Eats. Tags: beekman boys, brent ridge, fruitcake recipe, holiday fruitcake, holiday tradition, homemade fruitcake, josh kilmer-purcell, organic fruitcake.
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