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My family's Christmas is Second Thansgiving, but with bonus desserts. Mostly pie, cookies, and candy *NM* Burr Send a noteboard - 04/12/2011 03:00:51 PM
The wonderful Allie Brosh wrote a blog entry last year that I have just discovered (from a different blog) comparing cake to pie. Pie wins.

In point #5 she argues that pie has more usability over the year. And then has cake at Christmas being the lowest point for cakeyness. But this makes no sense! Christmas has a cake all of its very own! You make it months in advance and fill it with booze! How is this not wonderful?

Do Americans not do this?

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Help me, RAFO. You're my only hope. Sad as that is. Well. Also untrue. I could ask Twitter but I think the Americans are sleeping and then the tweet will be lost in the mists of time before they get up whereas this post will sit here waiting for you.
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I am confused. Do Americans not do cake at Christmas? - 04/12/2011 10:59:04 AM 1548 Views
chrimbo cake is the BEST! - 04/12/2011 11:41:28 AM 762 Views
Re: chrimbo cake is the BEST! - 04/12/2011 11:48:56 AM 794 Views
Chicken pot pies are pretty great. - 04/12/2011 07:18:47 PM 736 Views
Most do not. - 04/12/2011 11:46:09 AM 806 Views
Fruitcake - 04/12/2011 12:39:23 PM 880 Views
This - 05/12/2011 01:38:49 AM 761 Views
Christmas Cake is divine. - 04/12/2011 02:03:44 PM 798 Views
My family's Christmas is Second Thansgiving, but with bonus desserts. Mostly pie, cookies, and candy *NM* - 04/12/2011 03:00:51 PM 465 Views
No, generally we do not make cake for Christmas. *NM* - 04/12/2011 04:41:05 PM 354 Views
Cake? - 04/12/2011 05:03:02 PM 782 Views
We don't have a sheet of icing? - 04/12/2011 05:08:00 PM 762 Views
We have different icing. It is not typically a very dense, flat sheet of solid icing. Like fondant. - 04/12/2011 07:46:41 PM 1046 Views
That's just for Christmas cakes and wedding cakes, usually. - 04/12/2011 07:58:55 PM 863 Views
Ah - 04/12/2011 08:33:29 PM 754 Views
No. (with other responses) - 04/12/2011 05:03:51 PM 1065 Views
its a fruit cake with a layer of marzipan and a layer of icing on top - 04/12/2011 08:32:55 PM 866 Views
Plus with loads of brandy used to "feed" the cake over the month before you ice it. - 04/12/2011 08:45:28 PM 758 Views
i put three teaspoons on each cake once a week - 04/12/2011 09:35:23 PM 749 Views
You make pretty cakes! *NM* - 04/12/2011 11:53:16 PM 374 Views
thanks - 04/12/2011 11:58:40 PM 783 Views
Fruitcake is yummy - 05/12/2011 05:41:59 PM 692 Views
I dunno if they do cake, but Jason Biggs does pie. *NM* - 04/12/2011 05:18:22 PM 371 Views
Your boozecake intrigues me. - 04/12/2011 06:01:14 PM 805 Views
Christmas cake? Jeez, how awkward ARE you people? - 04/12/2011 06:21:06 PM 801 Views
I hate Christmas cake - 04/12/2011 06:35:49 PM 937 Views
Nope. My family has no Christmas-themed desserts. - 04/12/2011 07:17:38 PM 766 Views
Christmas cake is horrid. - 04/12/2011 07:25:59 PM 961 Views
We do ham a lot Christmas - 05/12/2011 01:01:03 PM 708 Views
Re: We do ham a lot Christmas - 05/12/2011 01:45:53 PM 876 Views
me and my first wife did steaks for Christmas one year - 05/12/2011 05:17:47 PM 704 Views
Pie in November and December. Cake the rest of the year. - 04/12/2011 11:52:31 PM 807 Views
I assume your Christmas cake is our Fruit Cake. - 05/12/2011 01:25:07 AM 772 Views
It is, as far as I can tell. - 05/12/2011 01:55:40 PM 1099 Views
The icing looks so... thick. - 05/12/2011 05:23:44 PM 790 Views
we do cake sometimes but not usually - 05/12/2011 02:05:50 AM 734 Views
My family does... though - 05/12/2011 02:08:13 PM 827 Views
We typically have flan....with some vanilla ice cream. - 05/12/2011 03:57:50 PM 793 Views
I adore flan... *NM* - 07/12/2011 10:50:00 PM 496 Views
No. We do cookie swaps and gingerbread houses. *edit* - 05/12/2011 05:18:31 PM 803 Views
our family offerings are bread pudding and sugar cookies. - 05/12/2011 05:25:01 PM 798 Views
I have no concept of a "Christmas" cake - 05/12/2011 08:15:30 PM 713 Views
Message from the Queen to Americains: 'Let Them Eat Cake!' *NM* - 07/12/2011 06:16:59 AM 329 Views

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