Not a Texas fruit cake

[PigletJohn]

I used to get Texas Fruit Cakes at Christmas.

I just had a look and the prices are ridiculous, so is the P&P even though I happen to know they don't post them individually, they ship over a container and have them posted over here.

Anyone know an equivalent, more local, cake?

Hmmm just had a search and I'm really none the wiser
From what I can gauge , it's packed with fruit (that one recipe suggests you cut the raisins up into 3 pieces stuff that ) and there are loads of pecans and candied fruit like pineapple.
Just enough 'batter' to hold the vast amount of fruit together.
Make it round Thanksgiving.

I'm guessing you don't fancy donning a pinny yourself , so what about any local cakemakers or wedding cake makers?
They can find a recipe to suit.

I can recommend staying away from the Costco fruit cake though (I think it was a pack of 3x1lb loaf cakes ) dull as ditchwater.

But the Costco Christmas cake is lovely, really gingery a d full of fruit and nuts.

I think I need a mass-production source. A one off might be equally expensive.

Yes, it is mostly candied fruit and nuts, glued together with cakemix.

I haven't tried the Costco Christmas cake, this was a fruitcake (that I hoped if it was nice I could skive off cooking my own. It wasn't. I couldn't )

Piglet you might need to get the pinny on
You've still got a couple of months to practice ............

Collins Street Bakery! I grew up on those. No advice just sudden nostalgia.

sorry, my foot still hasn't healed from where my last home-made cake fell on it.

Amazon has them with free P&P but £27 for a fruit cake is quite steep!

How about a cake from Bettys ?

A little bit cheaper.

I'm shocked at the price of the Collin Street Bakery one. We get sent one every Christmas by an elderly uncle. Nobody really likes the cake but the tin comes in useful.

Texas Christmas Cakes are delicious though (DDad worked in Texas a lot). I recent years MiL has taken to topping her Christmas cakes with glacee fruit and nuts and glazing it, rather than icing and marzipan. She uses a WI recipe and is a very good baker, and it's almost as good. Not so nutty now.

We get sent one every Christmas by an elderly uncle. Nobody really likes the cake but the tin comes in useful.

There is your solution then - you send the cake to Piglet John and keep the tin.

Soup I only came on to see what a Texas Christmas cake is

I have always wanted a Texan Fruit cake - are they really, really yummy? I like loads of nuts in my cakes? .

There is very little cake, it is mostly fruit and nuts.

Looking forward to receiving my cake from ringdown.

Sounds delicious .