The most popular fruit cake recipes are here: chocolate, Italian, and Jamaican, just to name a few!
Fruit cakes date back to ancient Rome, when raisins, pine nuts and pomegranate seeds were mixed into barley mash.
In the 16th century, with a discovery that high concentrations of sugar preserved fruit, candied fruit was added, and today's fruit cake was born! Nuts were added in the 18th century.