Fruit Cake RecipesThey're here!! All of the most popular fruit cake recipes: Chocolate, Italian, and Jamaican, just to name a few! Scroll down to find the one you would like to bake- and eat! Don't forget to check out our moist fruit cake and fruit cake hints pages to help you make the best, most moist fruit cake ever!
If you'd like to skip the trouble, time, and mess of baking one yourself, you can! Simply buy one Now for a bit of history. If you're not interested, just ignore this last bit. Happy Baking! The earliest recipes date back to ancient Rome, when raisins, pine nuts and pomegranate seeds were mixed into barley mash. Doesn't sound so appealing now, but back then would have been a real treat; one to be enjoyed by the wealthy portion of the poulation. By the 16th century, it became more affordable, with sugar being available from the American Colonies. It was now that the discovery was made that high concentrations of sugar could preserve fruit. With an abundance of it produced, candied fruit was added, and our modern-day fruit cake recipe was born! Nuts were added starting sometime in the 18th century.
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