Best Newfoundland Christmas Cake Recipes
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Best Newfoundland Christmas Cake Recipes. A collection of 16 recipes for traditional Christmas Cakes from my childhood, plus new twists on tried & true favourites.
Updated 2023.
I come from a long tradition of great bakers in my family and have sampled literally hundreds of different cherry cakes, apricot cakes, pineapple fruitcake, peach fruitcake, dark fruitcake and more over the years.
I have a big collection of Christmas cake recipes but there are some that I return to year after year and some that I like to play with as a base to create another great version of a classic Christmas fruitcake.
Even if you are not a fan of traditional fruitcake, you are bound to find one like the Apricot Raisin Cake that will be sure to satisfy your own taste and appeal to your visiting guests this Christmas Season.
By the way, if you are looking for recipes for traditional Newfoundland cookies, cookie bars and squares, please be sure to Cookies Pages where you'll find links to over 200 recipes. Many of them are traditional favourites and most are very freezer friendly.
Need last minute cake suggestions?
In the final week before Christmas, people tend to get a bit panic-y if the have fallen behind but still would like at least one traditional Christmas cake. Not all Christmas cakes have to be soaked in booze and aged. My top picks from the list below for baking, even in the final day or so before the Holidays are:
- Any of the cherry Cakes in the list below, Cherry Pound cake, Cherry Orange Cake or Cherry Pecan Cake.
- Apricot Raisin Cake even Apricot Fruitcake
- Poor Man's Cake
- Fruitcake Loaf Cake
- Peach Fruitcake
2020 Update:
This year we have added yet another cake to this delectable recipe collection. This Peach Fruitcake is an old favourite from decades ago which uses mashed canned peaches to give plenty of moisture to the batter and ultimately, the fruitcake itself.
It is also another easy suggestion for a fruitcake which you can bake right before the Holidays because this one does not need to age at all, like a darker fruitcake would.
2019 UPDATE: A new, smaller and more budget friendly fruitcake recipe has been added at the end of this list.
Ultimate Nut Fruitcake plus how to make homemade marzipan and fondant to finish it.
Cherry Orange Cream Cheese Pound Cake
Brandied Pineapple Cream Cheese Fruitcake
UPDATE! Two new additions for 2017!
2019 UPDATE. A new smaller fruitcake that's quick, easy and budget friendly. Find our new Fruitcake Loaf Cake here.
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I love the Nfld. recipes. My husband comes from "The Rock" and I spent 12 years there myself teaching.,
Have been looking for some good recipes. How can I get them?
Click on the picture of the cake you want scroll down The recipie is there
apricot fruit cake: could you use more dried fruit instead of apricots
As indicated, the recipe is based upon an apricot raisin cake cake. Just omit the other fruits.
Can't Waite to make the cherry cake my mom made cherry cake fruit cake thanks for sharing Mary
What a great collection of cakes can't wait to bake the cherry just plain so it's flavours of cherry and butter. I am going to post a lot of them. Then I will look into some traditional recipes of cookies, I read recipes instead of novels lol. I look forward to your emails from the rock. Thankyou
Anne from a village outside of Ottawa
Do you happen to have the plum pudding with hot sauce recipe? This was big when I was a child, living in NL.
Search for Figgy pudding here as well as rum sauce.
Thank you
OMG i just want to make all of them i love Fruitcake and all of these are
being printed for my collection & will be passed around to Friends & Neighbors
the big decision which one to make first maybe i will have to make two
but now the problem is not cutting until Christmas but i should really taste before giving .
Right Barry ?
Thank you so much take care .
Lila
Do you know of a cake recipe that is made with salt pork? It was dark in color. My grandmother was from Newfoundland and we had it often. Thanks.
Sorry, never had that.
I have a recipe for a Christmas s cake that calls for fat pork.
Thank you. Not too many people have. Would you share the recipe?
Old time pork Christmas cake
1 cup finely ground salt pork
1 cup hot strong coffee
1 1 cup granulated sugar
1tsp. each of allspice ,nutmeg,and cinnamon ,
1tsp.baking soda.
2 eggs well beaten
2/3 cup molasse
3 cups flour
2 cups mixed peel
2 cups raisins
1 cup currants.
Place pork in a bowl and pour hot coffee over it and let cool.
Combine sugar spices and soda and stir into pork mixture and then add well beaten eggs and molasses.
Sprinkle 2 Tblsp. flour over the fruit. Add remaining flour to pork mixture.Stir until well blended. Add the floured fruit.
Use a large 9 or 10 inch baking pan lined with three layers of brown paper.
Bake at 275 degrees for about 3 hrs.
Would appreciate knowing what else fruit can be soaked in other than alcohol. Thank you.
I do not have brandy, rum or any such things our home but we love fruitcake and I want to make one.
apple or grape juice.
I can’t seem to get the apricot raisin cake,I touching the pic but nothings happening,I never had this issue before
That link is fixed but for future reference the recipe titles are also links. Anything in red font is a link.
they all look delish
Are these fruit cake recipes in one of your cookbooks? I just purchased the
“Cookies” book.
Some are new but many are in the Christmas book