noun
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a rich cake containing mixed dried fruit, lemon peel, nuts, etc
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slang a person considered to be eccentric or insane
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Origin of fruitcake
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And TV offers more cooking shows than a fruitcake offers nuts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
His favourite treat, however, is the Simnel cake, a traditional fruitcake typically made with a layer of either marzipan or almond paste and associated with Lent.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
Fruitcake aficionados will tell you that the best fruit cakes are matured – or "seasoned" in fruitcake lingo – for at least three months before they are cut.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024
Even older is the fruitcake left behind in Antarctica by the explorer Robert Falcon Scott in 1910.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024
The fruitcake stayed perfect in the tin and the apple juice was fizzy but not totally undrinkable and the dried apricots were fine, as was the huge thick slab of chocolate wrapped in brown paper.
From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff
Check the malls for the day after Christmas sales, ask people that very question as they are returning those cheese balls, cheap robot vacuums, and fruitcakes they didn’t want and get back to us.
From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2024
What's amazing about these old fruitcakes is that people have tasted them and lived, meaning they are still edible after all these years.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024
For many monastic communities, especially those devoted to contemplative life and with vows of poverty, producing cookies, fruitcakes, even beer for sale is the only means to keep the lights on.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 17, 2023
I love to feature the single-origin spices of the companies Diaspora or Burlap & Barrel in my fruitcakes.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2022
As if her fruitcakes were edible, or her turkey done all the way to the bone.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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