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

Norma Hoots Lynch has made this fruitcake every year since it won The News & Observer’s contest in 1992, and even fruitcake bashers love it ...

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

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.

Proving that there truly is a day for everything, today is National Fruitcake Day. On social media, many used the hashtag #NationalFruitcakeDay to share their sentiments on the polarizing holiday ...

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Christmas traditions may seem immutable — wreaths and stockings, candy canes and eggnog, turkey or ham on the dinner table — ...

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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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 ...