Good Eating Monday: Banana Walnut Fruitcake!
Welcome to the first week of December! "Are you ready for Christmas?" seems to be the question on the tip of everyone's tongues! Every Monday this month I'll be featuring a Christmas baking goodie--favorites I use every year! First up, my favorite Banana Walnut Fruitcake recipe! I think fruitcake in general has a bad rap. Unfairly so. Historically, the most traditional form of fruitcake was a whiskey, bourbon or rum-soaked fruitcake. This is the one that has the reputation of being petrified and is the butt of fruitcake jokes. It involves making the cake 6 weeks in advance of Christmas, usually with an Old English mix of all candied fruits types and nuts. Then wrapped in cheese-cloth, it gets a weekly dousing with a cup of bourbon, whiskey or rum. It packs a taste bud wallop, no doubt. Having had bites of this as kids is probably why a good many adults are turned...