Get ready for the holiday season with these delicious and festive Christmas Fruit Cake Recipes. From traditional to modern twists, there’s something for everyone to enjoy!
Christmas Fruit Cake Recipes
Get ready to celebrate the holiday season with these delightful and festive Christmas fruit cake recipes. Whether you prefer traditional flavors or modern twists, there’s something for everyone to savor! Oven Bake fruit cake options include. Healthy dessert for family during the festive Christmas season.
- gluten-free fruit cake,
- lighter fruit cakes made with apples,
- charming mini fruit cakes that make perfect gifts.
- Alcohol free fruit cake, not baked ahead of Christmas.
- condensed milk and caramel Fruit cake idea
- Preserved with alcohol Traditional Fruit cakes
My personal favorite is the cake I prepared a week or two ago—alcohol-free, and packed with dates and whole cherries. It’s a beautifully rich dark cake, and the cherries burst with flavor in every bite. It’s truly my favorite part of Christmas! I’m also sharing some make-ahead fruit cake recipes that incorporate alcohol for preservation. Enjoy!
What can I use instead of alcohol in a Christmas cake?
If you’re baking an alcohol-free Christmas cake you can use a few tablespoons of orange, cherry, cranberry or apple juice; something sweet to keep the moisture in the cake. You can also soak the fruit in tea if you prefer a less sweet flavor.
How long does the fruit cake last without alcohol?
Since the cake does not have alcohol to preserve it it will last at least a week. Covered with cling wrap or wax paper, stored in a cake tin. If you want to keep it longer then wrap it well in cling wrap sealed well and freeze it.
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Caramel Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe
Caramel Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe idea for a decorative molded cake. Oven Baked with caramel cherries and preserved with brandy.
Easy Christmas Condensed Milk Cake
Easy Christmas Condensed Milk Cake with dates recipe idea. No need to Bake Ahead of Christmas season recipe, no eggs and alcohol free.
Dark and moist with plenty of spices and packed with plenty of sweet glacé fruit. It’s been a Christmas tradition in my family for decades.
Pleated-shimmer-Christmas-cake
This beautiful pleated icing design creates the perfect modern Christmas cake. Golden candles and tiny edible stars are the finishing touches.
Nigellas-traditional-christmas-cake
A cake with fruit and nuts and bourbon.
Gluten-free-dairy-free-rich-fruit-cake-recipe
In the years since I first shared my Rich Fruit Cake recipe I’ve become more cautious about avoiding Dairy (I was born with a Dairy Allergy) and also avoiding Gluten.
Traditional christmas cake recipe
Here’s a recipe for a delicious, traditional Christmas cake. It’s bursting with dried fruit and covered with marzipan and fondant icing. As with all Christmas cakes, this one improves with keeping. You should aim to make it at least a month before Christmas, and up to three months before.
This recipe is made by melting the butter and sugar together first, then stirring in the fruits. This ensures the cake is really moist and fruity and bakes to give a dense, even result, whilst at the same time remaining flat on the top.
I love this fruitcake for three reasons – most importantly, it reminds me of my favorite grandmother-in-law, secondly, it has a lovely sweet flavor without the bitter bite of citrus rind that give most fruitcakes their bad name, and finally, it can be made vegan simply by using vegan margarine! This makes a big recipe for handing out to friends and family, so don’t be afraid to half or quarter it.
Alcohol-Free, a kid-friendly cake you can have the same day you bake it. Tastes just like authentic fruitcake (maybe even better!). This cake is moist and stays moist for days its flavor keeps improving with time.
You’re going to make these, then you’ll need to do it soon, or they won’t have time to mature and develop before Christmas.
You didn’t bake a Christmas fruit cake? Not to worry this can be made a day before you need it. Alcohol Free Christmas Cake recipe idea. A moist bake with fruit mix, dates and whole cherries in the cake that can be made any time. The best recipe for me.
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A Selection of Bakeware Molds
A Selection of Bakeware Molds to bake mini cakes or larger cakes. Sets of baking pans silicon or nonstick, and skewers and kebobs, stainless.
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