CHRISTMAS FRUIT CAKE

I happen to like fruit cake . . .  I am probably one of the few people in the world who will actually admit that. The more whisky and fruit the better it is.  You can put Rum, Bourbon, rye or what ever and I am on it like and elephant on a peanut. I even have, HAD, a great recipe for mini fruit cake muffins that I just love.
A year ago I bought the candied fruit with all intentions of making those delish muffins. A year later the candied fruit is still sitting on the shelf. So I decided that today was a great day to bake. Most gifts are wrapped, thanks to H, I can't bake the cheese cake for Christmas till tomorrow so a fruit cake was in the forecast.
NOT !  I can't find the recipe anywhere. I probably took it out last year and then threw it out around April. But that isn't a problem, not in the age of the Internet. On to the computer I went . . .  2 hours later I decided I would make a rum cake instead. Fruit cake recipes just weren't doing it for me but RUM CAKE. . .  well, that's a different story!  RUM AND CAKE . . .  what's not to love. So the next hour I spent looking for rum cake recipes. Do you know that rum cake is made with vanilla cake mix and vanilla pudding mix?  Go figure! Naturally I did not have either of those things in the house and there was only one recipe to make rum cake from scratch.  Remember SCRATCH . . .  as in pre-packaged food cooking. I remember my mother baking and never opening a box. It was all from ingredients that she had in bags and in the fridge. Sugar, flour, butter, eggs, salt and on and on. I also never remember her baking with alcohol so no wonder every thing turned out delicious.
Well, three hours later I have decided that God does not want me to be baking because I am the only one that would be eating. So I have put the candied fruit back on the shelf, (the expiration on the fruit is something like August of 2015), the butter is going into the mashed potatoes that  I will make for Christmas and the rum . . .
Let's just say it isn't going to waste ! (Hic!)

Cherry Mismass and Nappy Hoo Year !