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Fruitcake Recipes

Fragrant spices and dried fruit make fruitcake a perfect winter treat. We’ve got dozens of wonderful fruitcake recipes.

Christmas Cake Recipe - This cake is a rich, dark, moist fruit cake, very flavorful at Christmas. Try icing with almond paste for a more festive touch. This recipe is started in October or November so as to let it mellow before the holidays. I remember very well my mother storing her fruit cake in an old butter churn that belonged to my grandmother and great grandmother. I wish that I had that old crock.

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Christmas Cake

This cake is a rich, dark, moist fruit cake, very flavorful at Christmas. Try icing with almond paste for a more festive touch. This recipe is started in October or November so as to let it mellow before the holidays. I remember very well my mother storing her fruit cake in an old butter churn that belonged to my grandmother and great grandmother. I wish that I had that old crock.

By Carol

English Christmas Cake Recipe - This English Christmas cake is lovely in texture and taste. It just has one difference -- no chopped mixed peel.

English Christmas Cake

This English Christmas cake is lovely in texture and taste. It just has one difference -- no chopped mixed peel.

By SCOTT LEANING

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Christmas Fruitcake Recipe and Video - It's a shame that fruitcake as a species gets such a bad rap. With its two key ingredients--rum and butter--it ought to be a hit. This recipe includes dried cherries, mango, cranberries, and currants soaked in rum overnight (a week or a month or more is even better). After it's baked, it ages in cheesecloth with additional splashes of rum. Let it ripen for 10 weeks for best flavor.

Christmas Fruitcake

It's a shame that fruitcake as a species gets such a bad rap. With its two key ingredients--rum and butter--it ought to be a hit. This recipe includes dried cherries, mango, cranberries, and currants soaked in rum overnight (a week or a month or more is even better). After it's baked, it ages in cheesecloth with additional splashes of rum. Let it ripen for 10 weeks for best flavor.

By Karen Uffelman

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Christmas Fruitcake

Apricot Fruitcake Recipe - This is another great fruitcake for the holidays. Originally submitted to CakeRecipe.com. Pecans can be substituted for walnuts.

Apricot Fruitcake

This is another great fruitcake for the holidays. Originally submitted to CakeRecipe.com. Pecans can be substituted for walnuts.

By Carol

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Christmas Wreath Cake Recipe - A really good fruit cake recipe, one you can eat the same day you make it; it's even better if you let sit for awhile. It's baked in a tube pan to make a wreath shape.

Christmas Wreath Cake

A really good fruit cake recipe, one you can eat the same day you make it; it's even better if you let sit for awhile. It's baked in a tube pan to make a wreath shape.

By Karen D.

Jam Cake Recipe - This is a traditional Kentucky Christmas Cake. I like it better than fruit cake and the pecans may be soaked in bourbon several days before the cake is made.

Jam Cake

This is a traditional Kentucky Christmas Cake. I like it better than fruit cake and the pecans may be soaked in bourbon several days before the cake is made.

By Debbie Collins

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English Walnut Date Cake Recipe - A dense cake made with dates and walnuts, similar to a fruitcake.

English Walnut Date Cake

A dense cake made with dates and walnuts, similar to a fruitcake.

By HoneeBee

Fruitcake Recipe - This is my 90-year-old grandmother's recipe. Very simple.

Fruitcake

This is my 90-year-old grandmother's recipe. Very simple.

By Roxy

White Fruit Cake Recipe - My mother has been making this fruit cake at Christmas time for as long as I can remember. My whole family loves it. I know there are a lot of people out there that have issues with fruit cake, but this recipe has converted even the most reluctant.

White Fruit Cake

My mother has been making this fruit cake at Christmas time for as long as I can remember. My whole family loves it. I know there are a lot of people out there that have issues with fruit cake, but this recipe has converted even the most reluctant.

By Brenda

Sharon's Jamaican Fruit Cake Recipe - A dark, rich fruit cake for wine and fruit lovers! This is a recipe I use at Christmas and for Birthdays. I prefer to use Jamaican Red Label Wine and White Rum. But you may use your Favorites....ENJOY!

Sharon's Jamaican Fruit Cake

A dark, rich fruit cake for wine and fruit lovers! This is a recipe I use at Christmas and for Birthdays. I prefer to use Jamaican Red Label Wine and White Rum. But you may use your Favorites....ENJOY!

By Sharon

Ice Box Fruitcake Recipe - I don't know if this is a regional dish or what ... but NO ONE I talk to seems to have ever heard of it except the people in my family... and most people act like it's sooooo ODD ... but it's really yummy and it's really simple common ingredients ...

Ice Box Fruitcake

I don't know if this is a regional dish or what ... but NO ONE I talk to seems to have ever heard of it except the people in my family... and most people act like it's sooooo ODD ... but it's really yummy and it's really simple common ingredients ...

By Elaine Harper

Best Boiled Fruitcake Recipe - This recipe produces a really moist fruit cake it was given to me by my mom, and it's really easy. My mom uses it for Christmas cake by icing it. I use it for birthdays, Christmas, or just for a treat.

Best Boiled Fruitcake

This recipe produces a really moist fruit cake it was given to me by my mom, and it's really easy. My mom uses it for Christmas cake by icing it. I use it for birthdays, Christmas, or just for a treat.

By Mark Richards

Irish Barmbrack Recipe - Barmbrack is a traditional Irish cake eaten on holidays.

Irish Barmbrack

Barmbrack is a traditional Irish cake eaten on holidays.

By Brooke Elizabeth

Rich Dark Fruitcake Recipe - This is my mother's very old recipe, at least 60 years old. My mother baked this for my wedding, and it sure is delicious and also a great Christmas cake. This is a very long recipe, but well worth the trouble. You can substitute a cup of drained maraschino cherries for the candied cherries, if you like.

Rich Dark Fruitcake

This is my mother's very old recipe, at least 60 years old. My mother baked this for my wedding, and it sure is delicious and also a great Christmas cake. This is a very long recipe, but well worth the trouble. You can substitute a cup of drained maraschino cherries for the candied cherries, if you like.

By Carol

Barm Brack Recipe - Delicious Irish fruit cake. Serve thickly sliced with butter.

Barm Brack

Delicious Irish fruit cake. Serve thickly sliced with butter.

By Ruth

Quick Fruitcake Recipe - This fruitcake recipe is very easy to make through use of prepared mincemeat and mixed candied fruit for a quick Christmas-time classic.

Quick Fruitcake

This fruitcake recipe is very easy to make through use of prepared mincemeat and mixed candied fruit for a quick Christmas-time classic.

By Linda C.

Kentucky Bourbon Cake Recipe - Fruit cake soaked in whiskey. Should be made a month in advance, if you can wait that long (I can't!). You'll need some cheesecloth for giving this cake its trademark bourbon wrap.

Kentucky Bourbon Cake

Fruit cake soaked in whiskey. Should be made a month in advance, if you can wait that long (I can't!). You'll need some cheesecloth for giving this cake its trademark bourbon wrap.

By Holly

Sugarless Fruitcake Recipe - Pineapple, musts, cranberries, and coconut combine in this moist fruitcake using artificial sweetener in place of sugar.

Sugarless Fruitcake

Pineapple, musts, cranberries, and coconut combine in this moist fruitcake using artificial sweetener in place of sugar.

By Cathy Brisco

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Boiled Fruit Cake Recipe - This is an Northern Ireland recipe given to me by my Mum many years ago!! This cake is always much tastier the following day! Enjoy!

Boiled Fruit Cake

This is an Northern Ireland recipe given to me by my Mum many years ago!! This cake is always much tastier the following day! Enjoy!

By WIGAN

Never Fail Fruit Cake Recipe - 'Tis the season for fruitcake! This one is more candy than cake and oh so delicious. Keep it in the refrigerator indefinitely. Really.

Never Fail Fruit Cake

'Tis the season for fruitcake! This one is more candy than cake and oh so delicious. Keep it in the refrigerator indefinitely. Really.

By Cathy Brisco

Delicious Whole Wheat Fruitcake Cookies Recipe - This recipe can be baked as cookies or as a fruitcake. It combines the traditional fruitcake ingredients of dates, dried fruit and chopped nuts.

Delicious Whole Wheat Fruitcake Cookies

This recipe can be baked as cookies or as a fruitcake. It combines the traditional fruitcake ingredients of dates, dried fruit and chopped nuts.

By Tuula

French Fruitcake Recipe - The fruitcake from this French recipe uses candied orange peel, walnuts, and raisins to make a fruitcake requiring no aging.

French Fruitcake

The fruitcake from this French recipe uses candied orange peel, walnuts, and raisins to make a fruitcake requiring no aging.

By Carol

Poor Mans Cake III Recipe - This recipe if from the l930's. My Grandmother gave it to my Mother and she gave it to me. Now I am a grandmother and passed it down to my kids. It's really good. You don't have to dirty your mixer for this one, just a big bowl.

Poor Mans Cake III

This recipe if from the l930's. My Grandmother gave it to my Mother and she gave it to me. Now I am a grandmother and passed it down to my kids. It's really good. You don't have to dirty your mixer for this one, just a big bowl.

By Jill D

No Bake Fruitcake Recipe - This fruitcake recipe using crushed vanilla wafer cookies, cherries, pecans, raisins, and coconut is easy to make and requires no baking whatsoever.

No Bake Fruitcake

This fruitcake recipe using crushed vanilla wafer cookies, cherries, pecans, raisins, and coconut is easy to make and requires no baking whatsoever.

By Ann Hammock