The Fruitcake For All Seasons

Aside from the dancing Christmas lights, the voice of Jose Mari Chan, the garbage collector and mailman’s envelopes, and 13th-month pay, my Christmas will not be complete without a slice of Fruitcake. Its colorful ingredients, the taste of fruits and rum is enough to cast the Grinch out of me.

Aside from the dancing Christmas lights, the voice of Jose Mari Chan, the garbage collector and mailman’s envelopes, and 13th-month pay, my Christmas will not be complete without a slice of Fruitcake. Its colorful ingredients, the taste of fruits and rum is enough to cast the Grinch out of me.

Imagine my surprise when Mrs Santa delivered a box of Ju.D Lao’s Fruitcake and Chewy Chewkies at the office, and imagine the look on my office mate’s faces when I said I’m not sharing. It’s too good to be shared, lol.

Ju.D Lao is celebrating it 40th year of baking and selling fruitcakes this Christmas season, and she didn’t event have any formal lessons. “I never attended cooking classes, but I love to read cook books. I do a lot of experimentations on recipes that catch my fancy. And since I’m from a big family, we’re never short of guinea pigs or should I say, brave and curious souls,”

To get into the mood, I played classic Christmas songs while opening the big blue box of Fruitcake. I was like a kid opening a present at Christmas day. The fruitcake is huge , chunky and full of colorful ingredients.The ingredients has never changed since 1975, she didn’t not add or lessen any amount of ingredients to maintain taste and quality. It was a recipe that took her six months to develop and was inspired by a fruitcake she ate at Switzerland.

This huge box of happiness or Ju.D Classic Fruitcake is at P950 and the mini versions, Ju.D Mini Fruitcakes is at P850 comes with classic – original flavor, prune – coffee flavored prune, blue – coffee flavored, golden – appricot/cranberries. The mini version’s box comes with two of each variant. Read my last year’s post to know about each of them. – Holidays Made Special by Ju. D’s Pastries and Confectionery’s Fruitcakes.

The shiny red box contains Chewy Chewkies. Ju D’s packaging alone tells you that it’s of premium quality.

The fruitcake cookies “Chewy Chewkies” came out in the 1980s ideal for kids who want like fruitcakes but without the brandy. The kids love it, we love it. There must be a tiny print on the box that my kids read that says it has to be consumed in 30 minutes, because we just did. I can hear sleigh bells ringing in every bite. The Chewy Chewkies is an ideal fruitcake on-the-go, but it’ll be gone before you go so be quick packing your baon.

Ju.D’s Pastries and Confectionery’s has fruitcakes available all year round by order. If you want to order one between the months of January to November you can do so, but  it’ll take 3 weeks time to have them aged and the minimum order is 8 pieces. For orders, call (02) 633-1188 or (02) 633-0260. It has to be picked up at Ju. D Product Philippines, 50 Greenmeadows Ave., Quezon City.