Pink Saturday

 

A perfectly beautiful Collins Street Bakery  A quick reminder to visit Pink Saturday I was going to write about this fruitcake at my other blog, My Tata's Cottage. But here I am using this fruitcake for Pink Saturday. So I will tell my story twice. When I worked in the medical school at UCHSC in Denver in the 1980's, I worked with a very nice doctor from Texas. One year he sent us all these fruitcakes. Now most people dump a fruitcake in the trash and that is sad. There is lots of love and ingredients poured into a fruit cake. This one at collinstreetbakery.com has organic pineapple from Costa Rico , crunchy Texas pecans and all natural honey. Move forward to the early 2000's. Suzanne who use to blog at Colorado Lady had an idea to make a fruitcake. Now it costs lots of money to make on these babies. So I suggested she order from Collins Street Bakery in Corsicana, Texas. As a Texan I thought she knew about these folks. It costs her a week's wages to create her own fruitcake! But it was not that costly at the bakery. Now move to December 2017. Rebekah and Zach were getting married and she was doing all these Irish wedding traditions. One was to have a fruitcake soaked in Jameson whiskey or any other fine Irish whiskey. So I Purchased a bottle of Jameson and soaked that fruitcake for their wedding. So although I am not a spokesperson for Collins Street Bakery in Corsicana, Texas, I can testify that this fruitcake is very yummy. You may or may not soak it in brandy or whiskey or rum before you eat it. It is best to let it soak for a good 2-4 weeks.  That's my story. I felt with the holidays upon us, I would share it. If you do not like fruitcake, you probably won't order a fruitcake. fyi they have lots of other goodies to purchase too. (wink wink). I am the catalog queen and have ordered from these fine folks previously. So I do know a good thing. 

"Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.": John Ronson

"There's a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us. " Jimmy Buffet

"Political advice is a bit like your average  CHRISTmas  fruitcake, something everyone gives and no one wants. "

"We need more fruitcakes in this world and less bakers." Jimmy Buffett