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Fun Food Holidays™
December 27th, 2025 is National Fruitcake Day

National Fruitcake Day
It's a fitting time to think fruitcake! Whether you like the dense, spicy old fashioned variety or modern adaptations like banana fruitcake, fruitcake drops, or even beer fruitcake, CDK has a Christmas recipe gift for you.
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Recipes to celebrate National Fruitcake Day

  • Graham Cracker Fruitcake Recipe
    Graham Cracker Fruitcake

    Made with butter, marshmallows, graham crackers, maraschino cherries, raisins, nuts, ground nutmeg ...get the recipe

  • Applesauce Fruitcake Recipe
    Applesauce Fruitcake

    Bake up a moist and flavorful applesauce fruitcake filled with candied fruits and chopped nuts. Applesauce keeps the fruitcake moist without all the calories of full-fat fruitcakes. ...get the recipe

  • Easy Fruitcake Recipe
    Easy Fruitcake

    Made with chopped nuts, raisins, yellow cake mix, sour cream, eggs, candied citron ...get the recipe

  • No Bake Fruit Cake Recipe
    No Bake Fruit Cake

    A holiday favorite that doesn't require the oven. This is also known as an ice box cake, made with wafer cookies, sweetened condensed milk, coconut, fruit, and nuts. ...get the recipe

  • Jamaican Fruit Cake Recipe
    Jamaican Fruit Cake

    Made with almonds, rum, vanilla extract, orange, eggs, sugar, flour, baking powder, raisins, citron, mixed citrus peel, crystallized cherries, nuts, limes, butter ...get the recipe

  • Traditional Dark Fruit Cake Recipe
    Traditional Dark Fruit Cake

    Made with almond extract, milk, eggs, brown sugar, sugar, butter, nutmeg, candied pineapple, candied cherries, candied citron, candied citrus peel, raisins, dark raisins, currants, rum or brandy ...get the recipe

  • Old English Fruit Cake Recipe
    Old English Fruit Cake

    The old English fruit cake is a classic recipe that features a hearty mix of dried fruits and spices, providing a taste of tradition with each slice. ...get the recipe


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