This seems like quite a logical month to be celebrating fruit cake, or fruitcake, as it is also known. Christmas cake, a festive cake eaten in December, is probably one of the most popular types of fruitcakes - although Christmas cake is not, strictly speaking, a type of cake, as the ingredients used to make it can vary. Christmas cakes are frequently iced. Fruitcakes have been around for centuries; the oldest known fruitcake recipes originate in ancient Rome.
Fruitcakes are cakes that are popularly eaten at various celebrations, such as Christmas, but they are also a popular, traditional wedding cake. Whilst wedding celebrations can, and do, occur throughout the year, Christmas is only celebrated at, well, Christmas.
A fruitcake is pretty much what it sounds like - it's a cake made from fruit. The fruit used in fruitcakes tends to be candied, dried or both, and other ingredients include such as chopped nuts, alcohol and spices, which are added to the mixture. The resulting cake is often quite rich.
Although fruitcakes can be rich, this is not always true. There are many different variations of fruitcakes, and some countries make cakes that are actually quite light, whilst others have cakes that are moist and rich. In the UK, fruitcakes can cover a range, with Christmas cakes tending to be at the rich, dark and moist end of the spectrum. US fruitcakes are often similar to the richer British types, containing lost of fruit and nuts, but rarely contain alcohol.
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