Fruitcake
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Fruitcake or fruit cake is a cake made with candied or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and optionally soaked in spirits. In the United Kingdom, certain rich versions may be iced and decorated.
Bara Brith, a traditional fruitcake loaf from Wales
A traditional Easter Simnel cake
Keks sold in a shop
Dresdner Stollen
Stollen
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Stollen or stol is a fruit bread of nuts, spices, and dried or candied fruit, often coated with powdered sugar or icing sugar and often containing marzipan or almond paste. It is a traditional holiday
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…use of butter, in a written permission known as the ‘Butter Letter' or Butterbrief in 1490, giving permission to Saxony to use milk and butter in the Stollen fruitcakes. Starting in the 16th century, sugar from the American Colonies (and the discovery that high concentrations of sugar could preserve fruits…
A Christmas stollen from Dresden
Dutch kerststol with almond paste in the middle
Stollen with candied fruits and without marzipan
Augustus II the Strong, by Louis de Silvestre