Fragrant spices and dried fruit make fruitcake a perfect winter treat. Weve got dozens of wonderful fruitcake recipes. Raspberry Bbq Sauce. Earl-Grey-fruit-cake.jpg' alt='Fruit Cake Recipes From Scratch' title='Fruit Cake Recipes From Scratch' />Celebrate the timehonored holiday tradition of fruitcake with these unfussy recipes from the chefs at Food Network. Storebought fruitcakes give fruitpacked holiday cakes a bad rap. You might be surprised by how good a homemade fruitcake can actually taste. Holiday Fruitcake Recipe Taste of HomeNote if you want the fruitcake to have a RumBrandy taste you need to use the Rum on your cake. Soak the fruitnuts overnight in the Rum. Here is a link telling how to do the fruitcake. Also a hint. After the holidays Walmart usually puts the candied fruit on sale. I buy the fruit then for the next years fruitcake and store it in the freezer. I make my fruitcakes in July or August for the holidays. After 2 months of doing what the link below tells you to do the I double wrap them in foil over the cheese cloths that are still wet with the Rum and put in the freezer. I also use more fruit, like dried dates, apple, apricots cranberries. I also add cinnamon, clove, allspice nutmeg to taste. Soaking all the fruit especially the dried fruit makes the cakes very moist. I never use the citrus candied fruit as it give a bitter taste I dont like. I double the recipe where I can use more fruit. I usually make 4 5 fruitcakes at a time.