dry fruit cake

[cecil39]

Ideas please to use up some fruit cake thats gone a bit dry, i should'nt have made such a big one, force of habit when you have been feeding a family for years, then there's just two.

[albaqwerty]

Pour a little brandy/sherry/cognac on some slices. Let it soak for a while and serve with either carnation milk or custard :-)
(just a thought)

[rowanwitch]

Make a syrup from runny honey and rum spoon over wrap in clingfilm and leave to stand overnight... by the morning sticky rum cake....

[B00]

oh yum!!! ^

[mccfluff]

could you make a kind of bread and butter pudding using the cake instead of the b&B?

[albaqwerty]

oooh go with Rowan's, please please please. B00 will be round at 8 am tho :-)

[rowanwitch]

Bread and butter pudding idea works really well also a sort of trifle soak the cake in ginger wine make a rich custard and top with whipped cream with finely chopped glace ginger on top

[Kiki-frog]

As a variation on alba's suggestion, soak it in rum and serve with chocolate sauce. I've tried it and it's luvverly.

[rowanwitch]

Another option... tin of Carnation caramel sauce in bottom of bowl slices of fruitcake, chopped dated and more caramel sauce bake in oven for 20 mins for a quick stickytoffee pudding

[B00]

stop it! I'm drooling :-(

[rowanwitch]

crumb well and mix in a jar of mincemeat and some glace cherries add half a cup of self raising flour a teaspoon of baking powder d half a cup of suet and two eggs and half a cup of a mixture of rum, brandy and sherry put in a mixing bowl and steam for about an hour tastes like a lightish l christmas pudding

[looobylooo]

cut a slice and spread a bit of butter on it! hmmm, lovely!

[owdhamer]

soak it in guinness

[cecil39]

thanks chaps, think i might go with rowans idea, and try to remember the others as its bound to happen again.

[vodkancoke]

Stir it through vanilla ice-cream with some rum or brandy over the top