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Elderly mom wants a Holiday Fruitcake...Costco used to have good ones years ago but not anymore unfortunately. My local Wal-mart doesn't have them either (only 3 bucks for a 12 ounce cake-best deal on their website though). The only other place I found them is my local Albertsons at $11.99 for a 14 ounce cake (link below). Any other places still selling fruitcakes out there? https://www.googleadservices.com/pag...ECAQQGg&adurl=
My local Wegman's has a Claxton fruit cake which is a 16 oz rectangle. And Whole Foods is selling a "holiday rum cake" but it looks like a fruitcake to me. You could try Vermont Country Store if you're not opposed to mail order and paying a bit more.
My local Wegman's has a Claxton fruit cake which is a 16 oz rectangle. And Whole Foods is selling a "holiday rum cake" but it looks like a fruitcake to me. You could try Vermont Country Store if you're not opposed to mail order and paying a bit more.
Thanks, my local Whole Foods doesn't have fruitcakes either. However, Mom (and myself) do like the ones from Albertsons grocery store...just got a second one today! And yes, they are from Bogart, Georgia. Looks like a lot of fruitcakes come from the state of Georgia!
I totally love to bake cookies. But my knees are bad and standing at the counter really hurts. So I'm afraid I may have to cut back this year. ..
Make bar cookies. Those involve very little standing. Just to mix them, then quickly into a baking pan and into the oven. Then you only have to stand up for a minute to take the pan out of the oven and set it on the counter to cool.
The Tollhouse recipe can be made as a bar cookie, and there are plenty of recipes for pumpkin bar cookies. The sugar cookies are the knee-busters, so you might have to pass on those, unless you can roll, cut, and decorate sitting down. Or compromise and bake a large shortbread in a pan and then decorate the whole cookie to cut down on the time it takes. Let the recipient cut it or break it.
Elderly mom wants a Holiday Fruitcake...Costco used to have good ones years ago but not anymore unfortunately. My local Wal-mart doesn't have them either (only 3 bucks for a 12 ounce cake-best deal on their website though). The only other place I found them is my local Albertsons at $11.99 for a 14 ounce cake (link below). Any other places still selling fruitcakes out there? https://www.googleadservices.com/pag...ECAQQGg&adurl=
Try not your usual places such as Walgreens, CVS, Big Lots, go to Walmart and grocery stores. Do not rely on on-line offers.
Make bar cookies. Those involve very little standing. Just to mix them, then quickly into a baking pan and into the oven. Then you only have to stand up for a minute to take the pan out of the oven and set it on the counter to cool.
The Tollhouse recipe can be made as a bar cookie, and there are plenty of recipes for pumpkin bar cookies. The sugar cookies are the knee-busters, so you might have to pass on those, unless you can roll, cut, and decorate sitting down. Or compromise and bake a large shortbread in a pan and then decorate the whole cookie to cut down on the time it takes. Let the recipient cut it or break it.
That is a fantastic idea. I didn't think of bar cookies, or making whole 13x9 brownie to cut up. Thanks for jogging my foggy brain to this alternative. Sugar cookies I might cheat and get a tube of slice and bake.
Oddly, candied fruit for making your own fruitcake isn't available locally this year. My local reddit is reporting store after store not having any.
Anybody else having trouble finding it?
I'm not making fruitcake, but when I do, I don't use the candied fruit. I use dried fruit and nuts, possibly dates, and sometimes I add coconut. ts a lot cheaper and tastes a lot better.
I do a nice fruit cake with pound cake batter, macadamia nuts, dried pineapple, dried apricots, white raisins, and wide flake coconut. Wrap in a cheesecloth oaked in good quality rum and let it cure for a couple of months, checking occasionally to see if you need to add more rum.
Baked small fruitcake in november. The recipe is from Cooking in Colour - Tess Mallos ....posted it some time ago on message board of Countrylv22 ....it is 3 parts.
The candied fruits are not sold here, so just used dried cranberries, sultanas, walnuts.
This week made very small quantity peanut brittle in oven. No candy thermometre...so used oven temperature ...approx 15 minutes.....
Ingredients peanuts, light brown sugar , sugar, butter.....adapted from BHG cookbook.
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