Fruit cake recipes

An Aussie favourite, in spite of it's colloquial name of 'snot blocks'! This recipe ideally needs to be made the day before it's needed.

This is my SIL, Becky's, Great Great Uncle Lee A. Harley's Dark Fruit Cake recipe. It has also won several blue and red ribbons at the South Carolina State Fair in the 60s and 70s. It is a 7 pound cake. Becky says this one is her favorite! She also says that her Great Great Uncle Lee was a very sweet Christian man who loved...

A few weeks ago, when Husband went to wine tasting boot camp, he came home raving about the fruitcake the Master Sommelier's wife had made. I was skeptical. Raving about a fruitcake? But both of us find fruitcake to be pretty horrifying, so I took his word for it. He begged, pleaded, and fretted, and finally she sent the recipe. Husband doesn't do a lot of baking, but the cake turned out beautifully, nonetheless (as you can see). He did learn a few baker's secrets along the way, such as: it…

Inspired by my Newfoundland upbringing & UK heritage, this dark Old English fruitcake is a favourite thing to look forward to at Christmas.

"I've been using this recipe for 40 years," reports Ruth Burrus, Zionsville, Indiana. "The cakes make cute gifts."

Try this and you will come back for more.

A common Christmastime tradition is fruitcake, and there’s so many varieties to choose from. My version is free of alcohol and loaded with both candied and dried fruit, as well as walnuts. Christmas Apricot and Walnut Fruitcake just might be your… #fruitcakerecipes

Recipe: Orange-Cranberry-Nut Fruit Cake

Years ago, when I attended Koloa Missionary Church in Hawaii, a friend gave me this recipe. Now I whip up at least 60 loaves for the holidays. —Eileen Sokolowski Flatt, Chandler, Arizona

I’ve found that people who normally won’t eat fruitcake make an exception when they sample these. Using mini muffin pans for baking creates fun, single-serving cakes. —Libby Over, Phillipsburg, Ohio

This is my SIL, Becky's, Great Great Uncle Lee A. Harley's Dark Fruit Cake recipe. It has also won several blue and red ribbons at the South Carolina State Fair in the 60s and 70s. It is a 7 pound cake. Becky says this one is her favorite! She also says that her Great Great Uncle Lee was a very sweet Christian man who loved...

This Drunken Orange-Cranberry Fruitcake will turn the non-fruitcake lover into a fruitcake lover. Studded with tons of fruit and soaked in lots of booze.

The ridicule that most fruitcakes face has everything to do with bad recipes, which skimp on fruit and load on the batter In a good fruitcake the batter should barely be perceptible, acting merely as adhesive to bind the fruit and nuts Broken down into its parts, a good fruitcake contains ingredients that most people love: plump dates, candied cherries, almond extract, pecans, walnuts and sugar

Every year I use the same recipe for my Christmas cake. This is a well tried and tested recipe perfected over many years. One year I tried five different recipes. After much debating and tasting…

In a good fruitcake the batter should barely be perceptible, acting merely as adhesive to bind the fruit and nuts. (Photo: Craig Lee for The New York Times)