It's beginning to look a lot like fuck this...

[valkryor]

Yesterday, I made all the fruitcake. I usually separate out the gluten-free ones and the regular-wheat ones and bake them on different days, but it kind of got away from me last night. I also filled out all the Christmas cards this week. A little later than I wanted, but at least it got done. Between the cards and the baking, my hand hurts.

Nine days to go and I'm already Christmas'd out. Ugh.

Comments

[kadenza]

Wow, you're way ahead of me! How many cakes did you make? I've really got to get going on my shortbread before it's too late.

[valkryor]

The recipe makes 6 8x4 loaves. I have modified the recipe so that I get 2 gluten-free ones and 4 regular ones. BUT, I decided on making mini loaves this year, so I ended up with 4 gluten-free mini loaves, 3 cupcake sized gluten-free ones, 6 regular mini loaves, and one 8x4 loaf.

Thanks to some poor estimating math skillz, I didn't have quite enough mini loaf pans, which is why there were cupcakes of gluten-free fruitcake. If I do this again, I need to remember that it takes 3 mini loaf pans to make up the volume of one 8x4 pan, not 2.

That said, cupcake sized fruitcakes are a perfect serving size. :D