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That's just a rumour put out by the commercial Stollen .. uhh.. farms? To prevent the spread of yummy home made baked goods.

:nod:

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Panettone is where it's at. Miles better than Stollen or other festive concoctions. Coincidentally, just purchased a big one and little one today.

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I was unfamiliar with that until now. Google tells me I may need to try one. :)

My Gran used to make great fruit cakes ( not the gelatinous crap called "fruit cake" here). Gran rocked. :)

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If stollen is even half as good as you would have us believe, I would strongly recommend against having anything to do with panettone, as indeed I already did, above. :) ..... It has the consistency of a dry bread with a few bits of dried fruit scattered through it, and as a connoisseur of fruit cake I can assure you it falls a long way short of the mark.
My mother still does. :)

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Fruit cake should have lots of fruit and just enough cake to fill in the gaps. Not the other way around. Then a good layer of marzipan, then just a sufficiency of icing that isn't so hard that a trip to the dentist ensues.

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Excellent taste lizzyq :thumbsup:

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I agree about the fruit to cake ratio but...leave it plain. No marzipan, no icing. Just good old fashioned heavy, moist fruit cake.:thumbup:

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Wouldn't that just be a pudding? Minus several gallons of brandy of course.

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Nope. It is cake:argue:

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Don't forget to soak the fruit in brandy, rum or another booze for a few days before mixing, and after it's been baked, before putting marzipan on, poke some holes in it with a skewer and drop more booze down the holes. Add a teaspoon of glycerin to the royal icing, and it won't become too hard. I usually make a Christmas cake most years, but not this year. I'm partial to (good)Christmas cake, like Nutek is to Stollen.

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FIFY :rofl::rofl::rofl:

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That's exactly how my mother makes them. :) She has done them with marzipan and hard icing, but all I need is a naked cake to keep me happy.

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:nod: Gran-approved.

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:lol:

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You are quite right about fruit cake, I should have said "Christmas cake should be made from a fruit cake......."