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And TV offers more cooking shows than a fruitcake offers nuts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

His favourite treat, however, is the Simnel cake, a traditional fruitcake typically made with a layer of either marzipan or almond paste and associated with Lent.

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026

Two friends from New York have been exchanging the same fruitcake since the late 1950s.

From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024

The Roman fruitcake was a mash of barley, honey, wine and dried fruit, often pomegranate seeds.

From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024

And of course the caved-in chocolate-covered cherry, at least half a dozen Scottish short-breads, a generous slice of fruitcake, and that jam tart.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

Thanks to this technique, colonists were able to keep fruit from the summer harvest to use in their Christmas confections, and fruitcakes became one of the most popular seasonal desserts.

From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024

As Dean Harper, founder at the private chef services brand Harper Fine Dining, notes, "There is a community in America that annually gathers to launch fruitcakes into extinction."

From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2023

For many monastic communities, especially those devoted to contemplative life and with vows of poverty, producing cookies, fruitcakes, even beer for sale is the only means to keep the lights on.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 17, 2023

There, too, I first learned of June Taylor, who up until 2020 made and sold fruitcakes every year featuring the best of California’s dried produce and nuts.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2022

As if her fruitcakes were edible, or her turkey done all the way to the bone.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison