People are already in the holiday mood as Christmas 2018 is just around the corner and so is the New Year. Every year Christmas is celebrated on Decembe 25th. Like every other festival, on Christmas, people wear new clothes and celebrate the festival with their friends and family. Traditional food items are prepared, and people relish amazing desserts to mark the occasion. One of the traditional desserts made during Christmas is Fruit Cake. The fruit cake is also called the Christmas cake or plum cake. However, over the years Fruit cake has lost its popularity. Christmas Cake Recipes 2018: 3 Ways To Make Eggless Cakes This Holiday Season.

The fruitcake was incredibly popular in Victorian England and was often made on special occasions like holidays and weddings. Princess Diana and Kate Middleton served fruitcakes at their weddings. Fruit cake is a dense cake filled with sugar-coated fruits that is overly sweet and hard to bite. Perhaps this is the reason the traditional fruit cake has lost its popularity. Nevertheless, we bring recipes to make this traditional sweet on Christmas that you can enjoy with your friends and family. Decorated Pineapples Replace Christmas Trees This Holiday Season! (View Pics).

Traditional Christmas Fruit Cake Recipes

Watch Video of Fruit Cake to Enjoy This Christmas Season

To bake the cake, fruits need to be soaked properly. Below is the video that shows you how to soak the fruits for traditional Christmas fruit cake.

How to Soak Fruits for Christmas Cake

According to Huffington Post, “Fruit cake is easily the most hated cake in the existence of baking.” One another interesting fact about Christmas cake is that it is edible for up to 25 years after it’s made. Not sure how true that it. But if you want to ring in the festivities in traditional style, bake this infamous Fruit Cake and treat your friends.

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