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.
Time: 2-5 hours
Holiday Cakes
Festive cakes for the holidays like gingerbread cakes for Christmas, king cake for Mardi Gras and fun Easter cakes.
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No Bake Fruit Cake
Christmas Eggnog Pound Cake
Made with coconut extract, butter, shortening, vanilla extract, all-purpose flour, eggnog, flaked coconut, sugar, eggs, lemon extract
Method: oven
Time: 1-2 hours
Mrs. Claus' Eggnog Cake With Whipped Cream Frosting
Made with ground nutmeg, cornstarch, eggnog, rum extract, heavy whipping cream, sugar, salt, vanilla extract
Method: stovetop, oven
Time: 2-5 hours
Crescent Roll King Cake With Cream Cheese-Cinnamon Filling
Crescent rolls to the rescue for a quick and easy way to make a King Cake for Mardi Gras.
Method: oven
Time: 1-2 hours
Graham Cracker Fruitcake
Mix things up with this graham cracker fruitcake, featuring crushed graham crackers, cherries, and chopped nuts blended into a creamy marshmallow base, all chilled to set.
Method: stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
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King Cake with Cream Cheese Filling
A traditional style King Cake for Mardi Gras. It's made with a yeast dough and filled with a cream cheese fruit mixture. The colored sugars symbolize justice...
Method: oven
Time: 2-5 hours
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.
Method: oven
Time: over 5 hours
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...
Method: oven
Time: 1-2 hours
Easy King Cake
Made with red, blue, yellow, and green food color, sugar, lemon peel, ground nutmeg, gumdrop, yellow cake mix, confectioners' sugar, lemon juice, water
Method: oven
Time: 1-2 hours
Texas Pecan Fruitcake
Made with almond flavoring, pecans, butter, sugar, eggs, flour, self-rising flour, golden raisins, cherries
Method: oven
Time: 2-5 hours
Official Mardi Gras King Cake
What would Fat Tuesday be without the famous king cake? This from-scratch version will be the center of attention at your Mardi Gras celebration.
Method: oven
Time: 2-5 hours
Gingerbread Pudding Cake
Get ready to meet the dessert that's been spicing up the holiday season, gingerbread pudding cake. It's so moist and flavorful, you might just forget about pumpkin spice.
Method: oven
Time: 1-2 hours
Fast N Fabulous Fruitcake
This fruitcake recipe features mincemeat, glazed fruit, and walnuts for a rich, textured bite. Ideal for holiday baking or as a make-ahead treat.
Method: oven
Time: 1-2 hours
Rudolph's Chocolate Truffle Cake
If you ever wished for a cake that brings JOY to any gathering, look no further than Rudolph's chocolate truffle cake, because who wouldn't want to indulge in a rich...
Method: microwave, stovetop, oven
Time: 1-2 hours
Clementine Cake
Made with eggs, orange liqueur, clementine, icing sugar, clementines, sugar, butter
Method: oven
Time: 1-2 hours
Simnel (Irish Easter Cake)
Simnel cake or Easter simnel cake is a fruit cake with a layer of marzipan and 11 balls of marzipan on top representing the 12 apostles, minus Judas.
Method: oven
Time: over 5 hours
Dark Gingerbread Bundt Cake
Made with cocoa powder, ginger, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, eggs, molasses
Method: oven
Time: 2-5 hours
Australian Traditional Christmas Cake
The folks down under have a killer take on a Christmas cake. Brandy, lemon zest, warming spices, and raisins make for a deliciously fruity affair.
Method: oven
Time: 2-5 hours
Eggnog Rum Cake
Made with rum, yellow cake mix, vanilla pudding mix, butter flavoring, whipping cream, vegetable oil, eggs, nutmeg, sugar
Method: oven, stovetop
Time: 1-2 hours
Sourdough German Stollen
Made with lemon peel, almond flavoring, salt, slivered almonds, currants, seedless raisins, golden raisins, sourdough starter sponge, milk, candied orange peel
Method: oven, stovetop
Time: over 5 hours
Eggnog Cake with Rum Syrup
Made with almonds, yellow cake mix, nutmeg, eggs, eggnog, vegetable oil, rum, rum flavoring, brandy flavoring
Method: oven, stovetop
Time: 1-2 hours
Eggnog Bundt Cake
Made with oil, almonds, yellow cake mix, ground nutmeg, rum, eggs, eggnog
Method: oven
Time: 1-2 hours
Easter Coconut Cream Cake
One of our favorite Easter desserts is this coconut cream cake made from a cake mix. It's moist, fluffy, and has the perfect hint of coconut flavor. Plus, it's super easy to...
Method: oven
Time: 2-5 hours
Gingerbread Tunnel Cake
Made with all-purpose flour, ground ginger, baking soda, ground cinnamon, salt, ground cloves, butter, brown sugar, sugar, molasses
Method: oven
Time: 1-2 hours
Easy Eggnog Cake
Made with cream, yellow cake mix, eggnog, oil, eggs, rum
Method: oven
Time: 1-2 hours
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