Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fruitcake placed amid winter greenery - Vaaseenaa/Getty Images It just wouldn't be Christmas without fruitcake, and while in ...

12/17/24 (LAPost.com) — Fruitcake may be one of the most traditional Christmas desserts, but it doesn’t have the reputation of being the tastiest. This jolly dessert has been the butt of thousands of ...

What would the holidays be without jokes about fruitcake — that it’s leaden, dry and hard, better used as a doorstop or dumbbell than served as dessert? While it’s arguably appropriate to malign ...

Fruitcake is a classic Christmas dessert. It’s also one of the most joked-about foods of the holiday season. In fact, most people have never even tried fruitcake, but will poke fun at how terrible it ...

Why is fruitcake the grown-up version of coal in your stocking? "Most of them are just leaden," says Southern cooking expert Jean Anderson, who wrote the forward to the recently rereleased cookbook ...