Fruitcake Recipes

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Layered Strawberry Bundt Cake

A layered strawberry Bundt cake is a stunning dessert centerpiece for spring or summer. The center layer of buttercream and strawberry jam is divine.

Coconut Fruitcake

A neighbor gave me this recipe when we first moved to this small town, saying it dated back to the...


Carrot Fruitcake

Even those who don't care for fruitcake love this special holiday dessert. It's a fun way to dress up that...


French Apple Cake

With just a few simple ingredients and your favorite baking apples, you'll have a delicious cake on the table in...


Cranberry Orange Cake

This cake was inspired by Italian-style cakes and is dotted with dried cranberries and scented with oranges and almonds. A...

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16 Recipes That Will Change Your Opinion on Fruitcake

It's fruity, nutty and sweet as can be—and nothing says Merry Christmas quite like our best fruitcake recipes.


Spiced Rum Fruitcake

This fruitcake not only can be made weeks ahead, it tastes better that way! You can substitute Brazil nuts, pecans...

Upside-Down Fruitcake

I get tired of people bad-mouthing holiday fruitcakes. It's one of my favorite holiday flavors and I look forward to...


Miniature Christmas Fruitcakes

I’ve found that people who normally won’t eat fruitcake make an exception when they sample these. Using mini muffin pans...


Daisy’s Fruitcake

I added pecans and candied fruits to an apple cake recipe for my Texan take on traditional English fruitcake. —Daisy...


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White Fruitcake

Our white fruitcake recipe modernizes the infamous Christmas fruitcake. Light, cakey and not weighed down by alcohol or molasses, we...

Fresh Grapefruit Cake

This dessert's particularly good for a backyard barbecue. My husband enjoys it, and our 2-year-old son thinks we're having a...


Bite-Size Fruitcakes

Meet the Cook: Because I didn't care for fruitcake, I had to have the recipe for this after I found...


Chocolate Chip Fruitcake

"Chocolate chips temp even those who don't care for fruitcake to try this one," says Ruth Peterson, Jenison, Michigan.


No-Bake Fruitcake

"Keep your oven free for other holiday baking with this easy recipe," suggests Joy Maynard of St. Ignatius, Montana.


No-Candied-Fruit Fruitcake

Minus the candied fruit, this traditional cake has a positively natural taste. For those who bake their Christmas giveaways ahead,...

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Fruit Cake

This chewy, sweet and, most importantly, simple fruit cake recipe will bring joy to any holiday gathering. It's filled with...


Pecan Date Fruitcake

My husband grew up in Louisiana and has fond memories of his mother's fruitcake. I make this for him every...


Date-Nut Fruitcake

Unlike traditional fruitcake, with its dark color and dense texture, this fruitcake is light-colored and light-textured, flavored with orange, coconut,...


Mini Fruitcakes

Fruitcake always looked so festive to me but I did not like the hard citron fruit so I came up...