Dark christmas cake recipe

There is nothing like an old fashioned boiled fruit cake recipe as it yields a super moist, soft and dense Christmas Fruit Cake that lasts for long!!

Tips and a recipe for making a delicious and traditional dark fruitcake flavored with rum and packed full of fruit. This cake is nut free.

This wonderfully dark Christmas cake is chock full of nuts and fruit. Here's how to make it yourself this holiday season.

Jim Gladders had a gift for baking and passed on a recipe to his daughter for Christmas cake that will be enjoyed by generations to come.

Be sure and have all ingredients at room temperature -- 70 F or above. Preheat oven to 225 F Prepare one-piece tube pan (10x4): Cut heavy brown paper bottom (trace bottom of...

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!

Rich and moist, this easy melt-and-mix fruit cake makes turning out a winning Christmas cake simple, with no need to soak fruit.

I have been making this same Christmas cake for years. It always turns out beautifully moist and is filled to the brim with lots of lovely fruit. This needs to be started the night before so make sure you plan ahead. I always like to make my cake a 5 to 6 weeks before Christmas so that it has time to ripen. Do note that you will have to start the night before by macerating the fruit in either brandy or fruit juice. (Orange is good.) This helps to plump up the fruits.