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
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
Not a Scottish shortbread or jam tart or fruitcake slice.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
Check the malls for the day after Christmas sales, ask people that very question as they are returning those cheese balls, cheap robot vacuums, and fruitcakes they didn’t want and get back to us.
From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2024
Maybe fruitcake has its reputation as a bad tasting brick because a few bad fruitcakes have sullied its name.
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
I love to feature the single-origin spices of the companies Diaspora or Burlap & Barrel in my fruitcakes.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2022
Then I thought of making fruitcakes with Mama before Christmas.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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