fruitcake

Example Sentences

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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

What you might recognize as a modern-style fruitcake – a moist, leavened dessert studded with fruits and nuts – was probably first baked in the early Middle Ages in Europe.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2024

But the honor for the oldest known existing fruitcake goes to one that was baked in 1878 when Rutherford B. Hayes was president of the United States.

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

“What, I didn’t tell you to go outside?” her mother growled, setting two cups of coffee and half a fruitcake on the kitchen table where the men were seated.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols