Janet Johnson of Pennsburg sent in several Fruitcake recipes. The Holiday Fruitcake recipe is from “Crisco’s Favorite Family Foods Cookbook.” The Dark Fruitcake, Janice Pike’s White Fruitcake, and The ...

There are few desserts more reviled, and therefore dismissed than a Christmas fruitcake. And for good reason, they’re often hard, tasteless bricks that arrive from a mail-ordering relative you’d ...

Wil Day, a digital distribution content producer, shares his late grandmother’s fruitcake recipe. “Below is my late Grandmother Day’s recipe for fruitcake. I say it is hers, but like most grandmas, ...

I am going to spare you the usual fruitcake jokes (bricks, door stoppers . . . you’ve heard them all) and cut to higher ground. Fruitcakes are deserving of some respect in the culinary collective, if ...

What would the holidays be without jokes about fruitcake — that it’s leaden, dry and hard, better used as a doorstop or dumbbell than served as dessert? While it’s arguably appropriate to malign ...

They're more than just a holiday gift; nutritionist Brenda Braaten says fruitcakes are a perfect food for hikers. "You're close to the same calories per gram in a fruitcake compared to a Snickers bar ...

People's opinions of fruitcake varies. This is the recipe I've used for years, and am using today. It works very well for those who either like fruitcake or are willing to try it. The rest of you, no ...

It may be fruitcake — well, it is fruitcake. But whatta fruitcake. Not just any old, run-of-the-mill fruitcake, mind you. No siree bobdog and not hardly. Longtime Forum helper-outer Rosemary Barrett ...