Früchtebrot, oh my!

[wiseheart]

I had a lot of nuts and dried and candied fruits left over from the Christmas baking frenzy, some of them nearing their "best before" date. So I looked up a recipe in which I could use them up and found one for Früchtebrot on the chefkoch.de website. It's something similar to the fruit cake known to British and American people - similar yet not identical.

So I gave it a try. It was a lot of chopping and marinating and the likes, and the dough turned out extremely rich and heavy. After I've baked it, I ate one slice and realized that:
a) it was way too hard for Mum to eat, even if I cut away the crust of her slice (which was paper thin), and
b) we won't be able to ate the entire cake. Ever.

So I quartered the thing and gave one quarter to each of our next-door neighbours. Then I phoned my friend Evie and asked her if she'd like to have the third quarter of the cake. Fortunately, she was eager to have it - she likes Früchtebrot very much. So she'll drop by tomorrow and fetch her quarter of it. I'm hopeful that we'll manage the rest somehow.

I'm a bit disappointed, though. The ingredients were varied and delicious (and not cheap), one could have expected a better cake as a result. Fortunately, other people will profit from all that slave labour; I'll be more careful with my shopping next time. *sigh*

Comments

[meathiel]

Pity it didn't turn out as expected.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was fairly disappointed. But the neighbours were happy and so was my friend Evie, so my labour wasn't entirely in vain.

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

Ich habe leider mein Früchtebrotrezept, das ich von curiouswombat bekommen habe, verschustert. Habe als Ersatz ebenfalls eines von Chefkoch genommen, den Kuchen allerdings dann, wie im Originalrezept vorgesehen, mit Brandy gefüttert, und es hielt ewig und drei Tage, selbst als es angeschnitten war. Man braucht wirklich nicht viel Alkohol dafür, dafür muss man halt ein wenig warten, bis es "reif" ist. Dann ist das Früchtebrot absolut weich und saftig!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Ich glaube nicht, daß ich noch einmal damit experimentieren würde. Biskuitteig ist das Richtige für mich.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

That's too bad it didn't turn out well.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Some recipes are like that. *sigh*
I'm just sorry about the ingredients that were yummy and expensive.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

Most of my baking efforts end up like that. I'm glad your failure was due to the recipe, however, and not your baking skills. At least your friends and neighbours will benefit.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That is my only consolation, too.

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

Fruitcake has never been one of my favorites, however, they always look pretty.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I only wanted to use up my surplus of Christmas baking ingredients before they'd go bad. Otherwise I'm not much into fruitcake, either. But my friend Evie was very happy with it, so it wasn't a complete waste.