fruitcake

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

The two most common styles of fruitcake in Europe are the stollen and panettone.

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

I leave out the part about my sister being older than me and nutty as a fruitcake.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko

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

There, too, I first learned of June Taylor, who up until 2020 made and sold fruitcakes every year featuring the best of California’s dried produce and nuts.

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