Christmas fruitcake - one hundred year old family recipe - bite

UPDATE: It’s time to start your Fruitcake so that it’s ready for the holidays. I shared this Fruitcake recipe five years ago but it continues to be one of my most popular posts. If you’ve never liked fruitcake in the past, this recipe will change your mind. If you make it in the next few days, it will be ready for Christmas dinner. XOIt snowed. We’ve gone from gardening in shirtsleeves to frantically trying to find matching winter gloves in one day! The upside; it’s time to make my Christmas fruitcake.I heard your gasp. “Christmas is almost two months away. Why are you making fruitcake now?”Simple. Fruitcake needs time to mellow. The mellowing process is called ripening. Fruitcake needs at least one month to ripen. I prefer to give my fruitcake two months.Growing up, fruitcake was the only holiday sweet that I’d leave on the party platter. It often looked dry and, on the rare occasion when I did take a nibble, I found the taste bitter. The first Christmas that I spent with Ralph, he ke...