Getting antsy waiting for my Collin St. Fruit cake

[Ogandydancer]

Ordered a Collin St. Fruit cake the other day and i'm getting antsy wanting a piece of it, with maybe a shot of Wild Turkey or maybe Bushmills.

When I was a kid we use to get either an A&P fruit cake or maybe a Claxton. We thought those were pretty good but, then my Sister in Tyler Tx. sent us a Collin St bakery one year for Christmas and just W-O-W what a fruit cake.

Anyone else like these? and what are your thoughts?

 

[AKtinman]

Collin Street Bakery in Corsicana, Texas.

When I was a youngster my mom used to get one of these each Christmas. I think she actually ate them, too. She used the empty tins for her sewing needles and thread.

I never developed a taste for them, but some folks really like them.

 

[Ogandydancer]

Collin Street Bakery in Corsicana, Texas.

When I was a youngster my mom used to get one of these each Christmas. I think she actually ate them, too. She used the empty tins for her sewing needles and thread.

I never developed a taste for them, but some folks really like them.

They also make an Apricot cake that I may try later on. We love their fruit cake and Mrs. Ogandydancer also uses the tins for assorted things.

 

[Bob R]

I used to make fruit cakes every year. I would have them done by Halloween so they could season and get the requisite weekly spritzing (or more) with brandy. I actually turned quite a few fruitcake haters ( or so they thought ) in fruit cake eaters.

What I order these days for snacking is medjool dates out of Bard, CA.

bob

 

[Salty RI]

When ever someone gave us a fruit cake we always passed it off to someone else, I thought only one fruit cake was ever made and it was passed around from person to person.

 

[Jack Flash]

When ever someone gave us a fruit cake we always passed it off to someone else, I thought only one fruit cake was ever made and it was passed around from person to person.

No, it stops with me. I eat it then someone has to restart the process.

 

[tops]

Ordered a Collin St. Fruit cake the other day and i'm getting antsy wanting a piece of it, with maybe a shot of Wild Turkey or maybe Bushmills.

When I was a kid we use to get either an A&P fruit cake or maybe a Claxton. We thought those were pretty good but, then my Sister in Tyler Tx. sent us a Collin St bakery one year for Christmas and just W-O-W what a fruit cake.

Anyone else like these? and what are your thoughts?

I haven't ever had one but we get Southern Supreme old fashioned nutty fruitcake. Bear Creek, NC.
Southern Supreme Gourmet Specialties

These are super good fruitcakes. Larry

 

[Biginge]

Actually the " re-gifting" concept became reality because of fruitcake.

 

[soFlaNative]

If I get enough I can always make a firepit out of 'em.

 

[Simmer down]

We must have been given factory defects when I was a kid. They were hard and could skin the roof of your mouth if you didn't take it slow. I cut them in slabs and toasted them.

I was an adult the first time I had a fresh one and it makes a big difference.

 

[timn8er]

Never developed much of a taste for fruitcake but Collin Street Bakery makes a lot of other stuff that is out of this world, like their fudge pecan pie...to die for, I tells you!

 

[shouldazagged]

I love fruitcake., especially the dark ones Have since I was a small child, right after the War of 1812. My grandmother made superb ones.

Do the Collin St. cakes come soaked with brandy or bourbon? If so, I won't eat them. Haven't had a drink for 33 years, but I'm still pretty careful.

That apricot cake also sounds intriguing. I never met an apricot I didn't like.

 

[Cyrano]

Thread drift. I love fruitcake, and I have a use for the metal tins too. I go to Goodwill and buy the cheapest book I can find, usually Readers Digest Condensed Books. I tape it shut and glue it inside the box. Then I hang it up in the garage, pin a target to it, go back into the utility room and cut loose with my Feinwerkbau air rifle from about 18 yards. Wonderful, cheap, offhand practice.

 

[Ogandydancer]

I love fruitcake., especially the dark ones Have since I was a small child, right after the War of 1812. My grandmother made superb ones.

Do the Collin St. cakes come soaked with brandy or bourbon? If so, I won't eat them. Haven't had a drink for 33 years, but I'm still pretty careful.

That apricot cake also sounds intriguing. I never met an apricot I didn't like.

No if you want that done you have to do it yourself. Also as someone else said they make loads of other goodies. I have never been in their store but once , in June of 2012 and my BIL and I got a sandwich and a drink and they will gift you one cookie but since it was my first time and I was from out of state they gave me two. I tried the peanut butter cookie and it was wonderful. Their web site is www.collinstreetbakery.com.

 

[jtcarm]

I don't know if they're still around but the Texas Yahoo Cake was the only edible fruit cake ever made.

Archaeologists have dated fruit cakes to round 200 AD. There's only a few thousand in the entire world that are re-gifted every Christmas.

A little Bushmills makes anything taste good

 

[LMWIS]

I understand fruitcake also makes a decent ballistic test medium, although you may need more than one depending on calibre.