Why This is NOT your traditional Fruit Cake
We used to call these “fruit cakes.” That’s what Mom always called them. She was known throughout the community for making the best fruit cake around. She loved to make them and give them to friends and neighbors over the holidays. So when we started baking fruitcakes with her recipe, we called them Anna Mary’s Fruit Cake.
But, we soon realized that a lot of people don’t think highly of fruitcakes and some folks would simply reject the product because of a stereotype that didn’t fit our cakes at all. If they sampled the cake, the common response was, “This isn’t a normal fruitcake!” or “I don’t like fruit cake, but this is really good!” So we stopped calling it a fruit cake and named it “Anna Mary’s Gourmet Nut Cakes.” After all, with pecans and walnuts as the top two ingredients it makes sense to identify it as a nutty product. And besides, “We’d be NUTS to call this a fruit cake!”
Bob C –
The Gourmet Nut Cake was tasty with nice, chewy, cruchy texture although a bit dry for my taste. The loaf was wrapped in red paper and then clear, air-tight, blister wrap to maintain freshness. I would buy it again. I sent some to my family and relatives. One suggestion for possible consideration is to also make the same cake recipe with apricots in place of cherries and use sea salt.
Ken Kauffman –
Thanks Bob, for the review and suggestions. We should update our ingredient list to reflect that we do indeed use sea salt. And your idea for apricots… Might be a winner. Thank you!
Jan Loftin –
These nut cakes are absolutely delicious! I ordered one last year for myself and I shared with my dad, he’s hooked he loves them!!!! So I will continue to order them!!!
Ernest Bart –
I bought two nutcakes. One and then another on sale. Very good. I think next time I will see how many nuts the reg. fruitcake has. The nutcake is very good but I kind of miss the reg fruit cake taste etc, as long as it has enough nuts.
Bob D –
The Gourmet Nut Cake is the best “fruit cake” that you will ever taste or buy. This is the second holiday season that we bought it as gifts (plus bought some for us to enjoy). I actually called Anna Mary’s with a question and had the pleasure of speaking with their staff. I highly recommend this product.