Fruitcake Recipes

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French Apple Cake

2 reviews

With just a few simple ingredients and your favorite baking apples, you'll have a delicious cake on the table in no time. Here's how to make this impressive French apple cake.

Cranberry Orange Cake

1 review

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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Spiced Rum Fruitcake

3 reviews

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


Upside-Down Fruitcake

3 reviews

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

Daisy’s Fruitcake

5 reviews

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


Miniature Christmas Fruitcakes

2 reviews

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

Fresh Grapefruit Cake

5 reviews

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


Pecan Date Fruitcake

2 reviews

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


Bite-Size Fruitcakes

1 review

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


No-Candied-Fruit Fruitcake

1 review

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

No-Bake Fruitcake

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


Chocolate Chip Fruitcake

1 review

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


Mini Fruitcakes

1 review

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


Date-Nut Fruitcake

2 reviews

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


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White Fruitcake

16 reviews

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

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Fruit Cake

22 reviews

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