Delicious Nut, Rum Fruit Cake Recipe

Let’s make one thing perfectly clear.

This is not a fruit cake. It is a fruit bread. With hazelnuts. And rum. And dried cherries and dried pineapple and even golden raisins.

God forbid if this heavenly creation should be called a fruit cake. You might think I’m a fruitcake!

I mean really. The rum fruit cake recipe might be this blogger’s demise, because we all know how people hate fruitcake.  

I wouldn’t want to be seen as trying to turn away readers now, would I?

It isn’t like I have many to turn away and I do so appreciate all of my loyal fans.

So God forbid, if I call this a fruit cake with rum.

Heavens to Betsy. Where did the fruit cake get such a bad rap?

Perhaps it is the boxed cakes that appear in the grocery, laden with sugary fruits and citron, and wrapped in cellophane for $5.

Now that is as nutty as a fruitcake-I mean really-how can anyone make a fruitcake that sells for $5?

I didn’t add up the cost of the ingredients in this cake, but let’s just say that I’m sure it cost me more than $5.

Shoot- the shot of rum in this cake (I mean bread) is worth that alone. Just sayin’.

Apparently it was Johnny Carson who joked that there was only one fruitcake in this world and it got passed from family to family.

Everywhere else in the world the fruitcake is esteemed.

In Britain it is even served as wedding cake.

Now that’s sure to get the bride and groom off to a great start, isn’t it?

Here in Manitou Springs-near Colorado Springs- they even have the great fruitcake toss. Really.

Even you can attend on the first Saturday of January that is if it is still happening!

Personally, I feel the dear old fruit cake has gotten a bad rap.

Perhaps it is the neon day glow colors that emerge from those cellophane wrappers, that make me think the poor dear is radioactive.

Well, I hope you can see that my baby- so beautifully swaddled in natural cheesecloth- is pure and simple.

And purely and simply delectable. No neon colors. Only the natural taste of fruit and rum in this recipe for fruit cake with rum.

Let’s not leave out the rum.

After all, the holidays wouldn’t be the holidays, if there wasn’t a fruitcake running around, now would it?

So call it what you will. Fruit cake. Fruit Bread. Even those nuttier than a fruitcake, generally know good food.

And this rum fruit cake recipe certainly qualifies as totally delicious!

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