This Christmas will be Ju.D’s 40th fruitcake season. It all started on the Yuletide of 1975 when Ju.D Lao started selling fruitcakes and back then they cost P50 a pop.
Ju.D’s classic recipe, which took six months to develop was inspired by a trip to Switzerland where she was introduced to fruitcake that she enjoyed. “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,” explains Ju.D who has authored two Vegetarian cookbooks for the Tzu Chi Foundation which are available in the different Tzu Chi chapters all over the world.
In the 1980s, Ju.D came out with fruitcake cookies which she has called the “Chewy Chewkies”. The kids of her customers loved them because they tasted like fruitcakes but without the brandy.
Ju.D Fruitcakes and Cookies Pricelist
Ju. D since came up with more varieties of fruitcakes like the Ju.D Gold – honey-based fruitcake; Ju.D Blue – Blue Mountain Coffee fruitcakes; Ginger Cranberries and Ginger Apricot Fruitcakes and Coffee-flavored Prune fruitcake. In 2009, she came out with assorted premium nougat in cookies and cream, espresso, cranberry-almond and cheese.
Ju.D Fruitcakes has since earned quite a following and has been featured in TV shows like Kapuso Jessica Soho.
For orders and inquiries, you may call (02) 633-1188 or (02) 633-0260.
Ju.D Fruitcakes and Cookies
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