Fruitcake recipes

Try this lighter version of a classic Christmas fruitcake, bursting with festive spice and juicy fruit. Decorate with candied fruit and glacé cherries

Rustle up this easy boiled fruitcake for your cake tin. Packed with juicy raisins, sultanas, currants and mixed peel, it's perfect for afternoon tea with a cuppa

This fruitcake slices into 50-80 small pieces if you use it for a wedding or christening. It's delicious eaten straight away, or poked with a few holes and fed with brandy

Use citrus juice to soak the fruit - instead of alcohol - in this lighter, family-friendly fruitcake. It can also work as an easy Christmas cake.

This easy fruit cake by one of our younger readers, Bree Hamilton, is simple, uses storecupboard ingredients and is perfect for a quick winter pick-me-up

A beautiful, moist gluten-free cake packed with zingy citrus flavours, wonderful for Christmas

Make this Christmas cake a couple of months in advance, if you can, and feed it with rum to give it time to mature and develop deep flavour and texture

This traditional cake has been jazzed up with lots of ginger - you'd never know it's gluten-free and dairy-free. Perfect for weddings and Christmas

This fabulously moist and nutty Christmas cake is baked with a syrup and nut topping - a bit like a Florentine biscuit

This cake has all the flavours of Christmas, but won't take ages to make - you can decorate it any way you like. Ideal for a wedding cake too

MasterChef finalist Tim Kinnaird's boozy pud is one Christmas treat that's just for the adults

If anyone in your family isn't keen on traditional fruitcake, this might be the compromise you've been looking for

Mix dried fruit, nuts, cranberries and maple syrup on Stir-up Sunday for this crowd-pleasing Christmas cake that improves as it keeps

If you’re not keen on icing and marzipan, bake a crown of toasted nuts, seeds and juicy cherries onto
your cake instead

Enjoy this 'glut and nut' cake, made with excess courgettes and apples, with a cup of tea

This bake is lighter than the traditional rich fruitcake and is a blank canvas to ice and decorate as you wish

This festive icing is easy to use, looks amazing and makes a lighter end to a meal. The perfect centrepiece for Christmas tea

This fabulous Christmas cake can be made and decorated in four very different ways. Just choose your
favourite

Moist fruit and a crunchy sugary topping mean it's impossible to have just one slice of this delicious cake

This delicious light fruit sponge is packed with storecupboard staples like nuts and dried fruit, it's also budget-friendly

These delightful mini fruitcakes filled with Christmas spice make perfect gifts for friends and neighbours

A famous traditional Scottish fruitcake with cherries, sultanas and almonds, and a sweet glaze