Fruit Cake Recipes

Even though I made this recipe as a Simnel cake - it would be lovely as a Fruit cake - without the almond paste.
If you make the cake as a Simnel cake - the separate recipe for Almond Paste is the correct quantity needed in total, or you can buy the marzipan/almond paste from a store.
Using my Almond Paste Recipe adds 115 calories to each portion.

Instead of Sultanas and raisins you can use 6.75 cups mixed dried fruit

Served in 30 portions each portion of this cake would give 1 serve of dried fruit (1/4 cup) and if finished as a Simnel cake would also supply 1 serve of nuts!!

This is a fairly light fruit cake with enough but not excessive fruit in it.
It is spicy - but you could use less spice when making it - and very moist.
It freezes well.

Dense, yummy cake filled with spiced dried fruit.

I found this recipe in one of those fundraiser cookbooks someone had given me. It's a traditional Newfoundland recipe, I think.

I re-arranged the ingredients in the recipe to be easier to follow. There's alot!

A lovely fruity cake that is so low in fat - give it a try and see !

This is a 15 min cake that is light, refreshing and easy to prepare!

My Dad's favorite Christmas fruitcake recipe!

Very moist sugarless fruit cake

A delicious classic fruit cake - a true taste of the country and a favourite with my family.

This cake calls for fruit juice concentrate to sweeten it without any added sugar! It's a bit coarser than a cake made with sugar, but very good - and healthy!

You can use just about any kind of fruit, I also like to use fresh pumpkin instead of the applesauce.

Not your old dry hard fruit cake

One of those cakes our family makes at Christmas time. It is similar to a light fruit cake.

Nothing healthy about this recipe...yet another once in a while treat!

Brandied Fruit Cake - brandied fruit jar must be maintained. Starter consists of 1 cup crushed pineapple, drained; 1 cup canned peaches (chopped), drained; 1 cup marachino cherries (halved), drained; 1 cup peach brandy; 1 cup sugar.
Every two weeks 1 cup of drained fruit and 1 cup of sugar must be added and stir well. Always add in order of peaches, pineapple and cherries. No metal utensils. Must be kept in a non-sealed glass container located in a warm non-drafty location, using only wooden spoons or plastic spoons to stir. Starters may be taken from this jar after jar one time reaches 3 cups of fruit. Remove starter just before adding fruit and sugar.

Sweet and spongy cake perfect for dessert

Recipe actually uses 1 kg of mixed fruit; I could not find calorie info for this so entered raisins instead.
This makes a high sided cake therefore you cut each quarter into 6 pieces.

I have made this cake for several years and have never had problems leaving it sitting overnight on the kitchen bench, un-refrigerated.

More of a coffee cake than regular cake. Much less sweet and could be made healthier if you're good at fooling with baking recipes. I've also used blackberries and peaches(yum!).

Traditionally served at Christmas and at weddings

A healthy mixture of fruit and oatmeal mixed with honey - not too sweet and a bit tart from the blueberries. This is a dense cake, meant to be filling not light and fluffy.

This is an awesome cake - perfect for breakfast or dessert. It uses applesauce in place of oil, no flour and no butter! It's so easy and so delicious. Very low cal as well!

Easy Pudding Desert

Forget all the negative you've heard about fruit cake and give this one a try.

Any thick puree of fruit (or fruit and vegetables!) works for this snacking cake - I love using my Honeyed Carrot Cake Butter, but apple, peach or pear work just as well.

I have used apple filling and peach filling. Both were very tasty.

fruit cake or muffins with slight rum flavour

no bake, banana, blueberries cake

with 4 ingredients this is one very quick and easy cake

home made fruit cake

English fat free fruit cake