fruitcake
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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
Seasoning not only improves the flavor of the fruitcake, but it makes it easier to slice.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024
For over-the-top extravagance, honors have to go to a British version that crowns a rich fruitcake with a layer of marzipan icing.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024
Not a Scottish shortbread or jam tart or fruitcake slice.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
Haters and disrespect aside, fruitcake is still a robust American tradition: The website Serious Eats reports that over 2 million fruitcakes are still sold each year.
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
By contemporary standards, fruitcakes don’t look especially delicious.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2022
It makes me dream I’m eternally rolling icing for fruitcakes, believe it or not.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
