Collin Street Bakery Fruitcake
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Collin Street Bakery Fruitcake
Old-People Christmas Thing. 1947-Present
Your great uncle used to send a mail-order fruitcake to your family every Christmas, but that ended in 1989. A Collin Street Bakery fruitcake is an industrial product of the middle 20th century, like metal filing cabinets or bakelite telephones. The gift ones come in a metal tin, like danish butter cookies do. The tin has a sort of Victorian Alamo Cowboy Holiday thing going on.
The cake inside is delicious, dense, covered in plastic, full of candied fruit in bright primary reds and greens.
A few years ago there was an embezzling scandal at the bakery, that prompted a pretty great Texas Monthly article.
Unless you have elderly relatives in Texas, no one is going to send you one this year. You’ll need to order it yourself.
Collin Street Bakery Fruitcake
I’m a little late and out of season, eh? That there tin looks awfully familiar. But I grew up in Ohio and had no relatives in Texas! My mother, deceased since 2013, was the only one who ate fruit cake at Christmas time... I still don’t think candied fruit belongs in anything. Cheers Joe!