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

Even older is the fruitcake left behind in Antarctica by the explorer Robert Falcon Scott in 1910.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2024

America's two most famous fruitcake companies, Claxton's of Claxton, Georgia, and Collin Street of Corsicana, Texas, got their start in this heyday of mail-order food.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2024

Fruitcake aficionados will tell you that the best fruit cakes are matured – or "seasoned" in fruitcake lingo – for at least three months before they are cut.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2024

Being that he was hungry, he ate a piece of Grandma’s fruitcake.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner