Eating Christmas Cake in February...
By Hate2Iron
@Hate2Iron (15724)
Canada
February 6, 2019 1:44pm CST
I know a lot of you can't stand Christmas Cake, but I love the stuff and each year I get a block... is that the right word?? of dark variety filled with fruit and nuts! I can't be the only one!!! Anyway, you would think that I would have eaten it all by now wouldn't you, but I completely forgot about it. So, I just finished slicing it up into thin slices seeing that 1/4 of the block was coming in at 30 grams of sugar and no one else in the house will eat it. I think that I cut about 12 slices... I did say that it was thin didn't I lol... Just finished a slice at lunch and it was amazing!!!
So... anyone else other than me asks for Christmas Cake for Christmas??
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@LovingMyBabies (85923)
• Valdosta, Georgia
6 Feb 19
Is it also called fruit cake? I have never tried it. I'm glad you enjoy it! =)
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@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
7 Feb 19
Yes, I guess it is lol... we have simply always called it Christmas Cake! No idea where the name originated... must have been my ancestors :)
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@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
7 Feb 19
We definitely have plans for making Christmas Pudding next year... I think that you start the process right after Halloween!!
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@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
8 Feb 19
@LadyDuck That is unusual!! They are so similar... is it the custard that turns you off??
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@LadyDuck (502653)
• Italy
8 Feb 19
@Hate2Iron I do not know because I like fruit cakes but I dislike Christmas Pudding.
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@hillhjill (23761)
• United States
6 Feb 19
I'm glad you are enjoying it, I don't even eat it during Christmas.
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@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
8 Feb 19
@hillhjill I guess that's the difference. We always had Christmas cake when I was a kid. :)
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@hillhjill (23761)
• United States
7 Feb 19
@Hate2Iron it's never been a big thing in my family to have Christmas cake.
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@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
7 Feb 19
I love the stuff and I don't understand it either. The funniest story I've heard is using it for a doorstop... They can be dropped off at MY door lol if you run out of doors!!
@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
6 Feb 19
Not me, but I would buy it for my dad as he liked having it. He was the only one that I know of that ate it in my family. We would call that fruit cake. I was trying to figure out what Christmas cake was until I read the fruit and nuts part, then it was obvious to me. At the store where I work we sell a lot of the colored gel looking pieces for those that make it from scratch.
No thanks, you can have it all. If it's 30grams for the portion of the block, how much is it per slice do you think?
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@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
7 Feb 19
I re-wrapped it yesterday and there were ten slices but a whole lot of bits had fallen off lol... It was a NO SUGAR DAY for me and I didn't taste even a bit of it... it was tempting though!! It just occurred to me... I think that I can have some today!!
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
7 Feb 19
@Hate2Iron Lol, I had a piece of brownie, I think it was, at work recently and it was the first sugar product of that type that I'd had since Christmas. I didn't get the sugar high, but I certainly crashed once I went back to work.
I'm doing well not getting valentine's candy and I'm hoping to do just as good with the Easter candy and not bring any into the house.
@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
8 Feb 19
I think that I could gladly live on the stuff. Warm it up with ice cream in the summer and hot custard in the winter!!
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@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
8 Feb 19
I have tried both the light and the dark... I love to dark the best but I'm sure homemade is even better!! One day lol!
@ThreeTeddies (2038)
• United Kingdom
6 Feb 19
Leftover Christmas cake covered in hot custard is lovely! Pity it's so fattening
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@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
7 Feb 19
We usually have hot custard over the Christmas Pudding, but not over the cake... as of yet. We use no sugar in the custard powder and skim milk for the liquid part. I tell myself that I have cut out enough sugar to enjoy the dessert without a care. ;)
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@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
8 Feb 19
Isn't that funny that the same cake was given two distinct names. I don't know if it was Mom or Dad who loved Christmas cake, but I have feeling that it was Dad!! He had more of a sweet tooth than I have!
@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
8 Feb 19
Isn't that funny... I have never had any other kind of dessert other than christmas cake/fruit cake during the holidays.
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@JWMILLER (3275)
• Westmoreland, Tennessee
6 Feb 19
We have a few sweets still hanging around after Christmas, disappearing slowly
@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
8 Feb 19
Same here... really slowly, We were introduced to Polish chocolates this year... pretty awesome!!
I love x-mas cakes. 
@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
8 Feb 19
LOL... Another person to join our little group of Christmas cake lovers!!
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