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.
Fruitcake Recipes
English Walnut Date Cake
This has been a favorite of my husband’s since I can long remember. His mother always manages to bake him one every year (she’s 75) for Christmas……though she claims it’s always his last.
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!
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.
Sugarless Fruitcake
Pineapple, musts, cranberries, and coconut combine in this moist fruitcake using artificial sweetener in place of sugar.
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.
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.
Boiled Fruitcake
This recipe produces a really moist fruitcake. 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. If mixed spice is unavailable, substitute with a pinch each of cinnamon, coriander, cloves, nutmeg, and ginger.
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 …
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 fruit, instead of the glowing, candied stuff we’ve all learned to associate with fruitcake, and is less dense and more cake-like than many fruitcake recipes. It has become a favorite of my friends and family around the holidays (even the skeptical ones), and is delicious by itself, or covered with a layer of almond paste.
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!
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.
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.