Christmas Cake Recipes

The ultimate fruitcake, perfect for a tropical change from the usual!

Chunks of buttery, rich, candied chestnuts that have been soaked in brandy fill this intense orange-vanilla crustless cheesecake for a Christmas dessert like no other. You'll need fresh chestnuts for this cake, so it really is a seasonal delicacy!

This cake should be served room temperature, never cold, so when you've just served dinner pull it out of the fridge to warm up.

This fruitcake recipe is the one my Mom made my whole life growing up for the Christmas season. It comes from a very old cookbook called "The Treasury of Newfoundland Dishes". The original recipe calls for a little more of some kinds of fruit and a little less of others, but over all the amount of fruit is the same.

I made my dad one of his favourite Christmas confections - fruitcake - out of another one of his favourites - home made mincemeat! This sucker took up a whole 11" springform with barely any room to spare, and clocked in at just over 6 lbs. It's a combination of two recipes from historic Toronto Star clipouts! Mizz R, if you're wondering by the way, is me! The mincemeat recipe is also on this site.

Moist and very rich, you only need a small piece.

This is my mom recepies, which I do once a year and it is my snack when i go skiing or snow shoeing for many hours

Who knew my grandma had such a taste for alcohol? This is a super-high-test fruitcake, combining 6 different dried fruits and 4 types of alcohol in a super-saturated mixture, spicing it up a ton of ways and baking it low and slow for over two hours. It’s a good thing it was designed for mini-loaf pans, since even with my few alterations to grandma’s original recipe (reducing the eggs and modifying the fats) it is a RICH recipe!

Healthier Xmas/Fruit Cake recipe

A very moist carrot cake special enough for Christmas. Children and adults love this because it is lighter than a fruit cake. Makes 10 slices as each slice is very filling. Use any topping you like on this cake.

This came from one of my George Brown classmates in exchange for my Soy Awesome Cookies recipe. He noted that this cake should be thinly sliced when served. Makes 3 loaves, 14 slices per serving.