Hi there. Eggnog week continues! So settle in, make yourself an eggnog milkshake, and head on over to Davidson’s Safest Choice Pasteurized Eggs website for the 12 Days of Eggnog. My recipe for Chocolate Eggnog Bundt Cake is featured today! It’s a rich, chocolate cake made with eggnog, and drizzled with an eggnog-cream cheese glaze.
In case you didn’t know, Safest Choice Eggs are pasteurized eggs, free from salmonella and harmful bacteria. They’re labeled with a cute little P! Safe Eggs are fine to use in every-day cooking and baking, and they’re also great for raw uses, such as eggnog, cookie dough, mayonnaise, etc. They’re also good in raw cake batter. Mmm cake batter.
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To celebrate eggnog week, Davidson’s Safest Choice Pasteurized Eggs is giving away a prize pack with the following:
-Giuliano Hazan’s Thirty Minute Pasta book
-Coupons for Safest Choice
-Two spatulas
-Two stress eggs
-Pen
To enter the giveaway, just leave me a comment on this post telling me... your opinion on fruitcake. Isn’t that random? I love it. I’ll draw a name and announce the winner on Friday’s blog!
For more information on Safe Eggs, visit their Facebook page and Twitter.
I can honestly say that I've never tried fruit cake, but I have heard no good reason to try it.
ReplyDeleteI've only ever had my Mom's fruitcake, and I love it! It's moist and light, and nothing like the horror stories I've heard from others!
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Fruitcake? What is that? LOL I think it was made in the old days, they soaked it in rum and made it with lots of sugar to help preserve it through the winter.
ReplyDeletehm i've never had fruitcake before! so i have no idea...but i saw ironchef america's secret ingredient the other day was alton brown's fruitcake...anything by alton's gotta be good right?
ReplyDeleteI'm neutral about fruit cake-- I could take it or leave it. Of course, homemade fruit cake is probably the only kind I would take. lol.
ReplyDeletei think i'm the only fruitcake lover i know. besides my mom. but moms are supposed to love fruitcake.
ReplyDeletei've been on such an eggnog kick! I want to try this as cupcakes! :)
ReplyDeleteI use to think fruitcake was gross but I've really started to come around to it! Now I'll take a slice...or two.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, I love that when I leave a comment your thing says "sup?" it makes me giggle every time.
ReplyDeleteSecondly, I have never had fruitcake, but I've made it at the bakery I work at and I just can't understand the appeal...
i LOVE LOVE well made fruitcake. i am definitely not a hater!
ReplyDeleteMy opinion of fruit cake isn't a very good one. My mom has always made fruit cake for my dad, and he really likes it, but I'm seriously not a huge fan. I think it's the fact that it's just got too many different candied fruits in it, and the fact that I'm not a huge cake fan to begin with.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a fan of fruitcake. I really don't like it. I would much rather have pumpkin bread or gingerbread.
ReplyDeleteI'm also not a fan of eggnog, haha. I just don't like it. But thankfully you have lots of other good recipes to use. =]
Thanks,
Jessica
I have not had fruitcake since I hated it as a kid, however, now that I am older, it actually looks good to me!
ReplyDeleteI actually like fruitcake provided it's made right. A lot of commercial ones are dry and many of them aren't made with real alcohol then wrapped and aged for a couple of months. No wonder people hate it!
ReplyDeleteI do okay at Christmas since I'm almost the only person who eats it - I sometimes have some left after Valentine's Day.
I also love plum pudding - now that would be good with an eggnog sauce, wouldn't it?!?
Darn you Emily! I was thinking of making your chocolate rum cake for Christmas dinner, but now I'm torn between that one and this one! How am I supposed to choose? I suppose with the children around, this would be a better choice?
ReplyDeleteFruitcake? Not my thing. I'm not fond of most dried fruits for one thing (and those green things - ick!). I'm also not fond of most spice cakes. I don't begrudge anyone a love of fruitcake though. If you like it, you can have it!
Fruit cake! I ca'nt say I"ve ever actually tried it.. but it will forever remind me of the movie Mixed Nuts which happens to be one of the greatest holiday movies of all time!
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ReplyDeletethat cake looks amazing, Emily!
ReplyDeleteFruitcake...hmm...honestly I've never tried one, mainly because anything gummy and green inside a cake scares me a little
But then I saw Ina Garten making some fruit cake cookies yesterday which looked pretty good!
fruitcake be weird. actually I've never tried Fruitcake but when I was little I remember reading a "Junnie B Jones" story book and she won a fruitcake in a contest and hated it. the whole book is bascially about fruitcake being the worst cake in the world and I think it really had a big impact on me. haha. the eggnog cake looks awesome though!
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Ah fruitcake....the food of controversy. My opinion on this sugary lump is not entirely favorable, but it does bring back memories of when I was younger- as my Aunt Rose would ship us one of these sweet, chewy masses every Christmas. It would then sit in the freezer for around 10 months until my mom felt less guilty for throwing it away :) Good times!
ReplyDeleteI've never had fruit cake! I know this is awful. I have always heard awful things about it so I'ver never tried it. I like fruit and I like cake so I think hearsay is the only thing stopping me.
ReplyDeleteJess (Starypetal@aol.com)
fruitcake?? blegh. even if it's homemade, i still see visions of the overly sweet, hard, door-stop-like loaf that is exaggerated in movies and tv. i just can't do it. i'd rather waste the calories on cheesecake or brownies!!
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I don't like fruitcake, but my hubby is from Georgia and loves it. His mama used to make the best fruitcake according to him. I try to make one every year for him.
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Fruitcake...I've never liked it. I don't like those crazy colorful "fruits".
ReplyDeleteHowever, THIS cake...eggnog chocolate bundt...sounds perfectly amazing :)
I don't think I've ever had fruitcake...but from what I've heard, it's not so good. I'd much rather have eggnog chocolate bundt cake!
ReplyDeleteNot a fan of fruit cake. Maybe it's because of the negative connotation over the years. :p
ReplyDeleteI actually don't think I've ever had fruitcake! But I really want to try it from Collin Street Bakery after watching an episode about it on The Best Thing I Ever Ate on the Food Network.
ReplyDeleteSUCH a great idea to top a chocolate cake with eggnog glaze! Do you know if pregnant women can eat pasteurized eggs?
ReplyDeleteNot a fan of fruitcake and never have been even though my grandmother used to make some every year.
ReplyDeleteI love fruitcake. My mother made it every year when I was little and my sister has taken over the job. It's really something that takes a lot of muscles, but it's so worth it.
ReplyDeleteThat said homemade fruitcake is a different beast than store bought fruitcake. Store bought fruitcake tends toward dry and brick like. Unless of course you buy from Gesthemanie Farms in Kentucky. Their fruitcake is appropriately boozy and DELICIOUS!
Okay, I think I'm going to have to make this cake for Christmas! I love eggnog, and I love chocolate! Speaking of which, have you seen the Target holiday milks? I bought a chocolate red velvet one that was delicious!
ReplyDeleteI'm not a big fan of fruitcake. I like the way it smells, and I love a lot of the ingredients, but I'm not into candied fruits. My Aunt Betty always apologizes when she doesn't get it made for Christmas, but nobody cares except my mom.
If it is good fruitcake :)
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Well, I'll eat fruitcake if there are no other options...but that's not usually the case around the holidays.
ReplyDeletenever tried fruit cake, so I am neutral on the subject.
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