CORSICANA, Texas — In a holiday full of classic confections — candy canes, gingerbread and sugarplums — there's one that's ...

Fruitcake lovers, rejoice – there's one Texan bakery with a German founder whose fruitcake is celebrated far and wide. Here's ...

Cardin Bradley of Knoxville and her mother Jane Wyatt of Cedartown, Georgia, bake fruitcake for people who think they don’t ...

Those people probably haven't tried the fruitcakes from Assumption Abbey. It's a community of Catholic priests and monks near the small town of Ava, Missouri, about a three-hour drive, almost dead ...

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The key to making a good fruitcake is not to make a fruitcake. Forget about that syrupy-sweet, hard-as-a-brick loaf studded with colors that don’t even exist in nature. Instead, start with a ...

The expression “nutty as a fruitcake” was coined in 1935 when Southern bakeries added an excess of nuts to their fruitcakes.

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Fruitcake has built quite a reputation. It is known for its longevity, but also as a gift not widely preferred — although you can always regift. The origins of fruitcake date back to the ancient ...

Fruitcake is a shelf-stable food unlike any other. One Ohio family has kept the same fruitcake uneaten (except for periodic taste tests) since it was baked in 1878. In Antarctica, a century-old ...

Blame the fruitcake plague on the cheap sugar that arrived in Europe from the colonies in the 16th century. Some goon discovered that fruit could be preserved by soaking it in successively greater ...

I have two core memories of fruitcake. First is the Eraserheads song of the same name, whose “Take a bite, it’s alright” line lived (or still lives?) in my head rent-free, as one of the peak Filipino ...