My Mission

I am on a very serious mission to make fruit cake - not gross yucky poo-poo fruitcake (see picture to the left), but deliciously alcoholic and seriously tasty fruitcake...
After much searching and thinking and re-searching and re-thinking and combining of too many recipes, I hopefully have a winner... hopefully.
First step is I am soaking dried fruit in lots of alcohol for like a week. I went for dried fruit because candy fruit sounds gross and I think would be too sweet and fake tasting. I also wanted to make a more winter appropriate cake, so I threw in raisins, dates, figs, and some apricots/pears/ nectarines/whatever the hell that was in the bottom of my dried fruit bag, oh and some citrus peel for good measure. Over all this I poured a cup of port wine, a cup of rum, and a little less than a cup of brandy - hopefully this combination will give it some depth and complexity. It smells like a drunk old man and looks a little like a hippie's vomit, but I am going to keep hoping for the best.
Next week I turn it into a cake, which will then age for a week or two until we find out whether or not I succeeded. I find it weird to age a cake, but according to my sources, this is very important. Also, all the alcohol means that the cake will last well into the next century, which is disturbing (my cake could live longer than me and not get moldy? Better eat that bastard quick before it takes over the world!)

So, yeah that is what I have been spending my time doing... not really a helpful post unless you wanted help knowing what my mind has been occupied with.