It's fruitcake season! If you're sick of normal fruitcake (and even people who have never had fruitcake can already be sick of it), then Still More of Our Favorite Recipes (Maui Extension Homemakers' Council, 1967) offers some Hawaiian twists that can simultaneously banish the early-winter blahs AND switch up the old fruitcake routine.
If you want a more traditional fruitcake, Hawaiian Fruit Cake (The extra space makes it extra fancy!) offers up the usual mix of raisins, candied fruit, and warming spices, plus coconut, macadamia nuts, and guava jelly for an island-y experience.
If you want to go a little less traditional (and more in the tradition of vegetable-based dessert cakes), there's Avocado Cake.
It still has the raisins, nuts, and fall spices, along with a good dose of mashed avocado for healthy fat to counterbalance the shortening in this recipe and sticks of butter you're likely consuming in the form of mashed potatoes and Christmas cookies! You can make it in the name of Christmas cheer and health.
Or not. I'm just going to enjoy some extra "Pistachio Salad" from our Christmas spread and skip the fruitcake entirely when the holiday comes.
Raisins and dates don't sound as bad as candied fruit. I don't know that I would have been more enthusiastic about a green tinged cake than a fruit cake as a kid.
ReplyDeleteYeah-- the avocado cake does have the advantage of just using dried fruit. I'm not a fan of candied fruit either.
DeleteAll right! Diced pimientos! Thanks for clearing up that mystery.
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