Thanks for sharing world’s best fruitcake recipe. This Christmas cake recipe is an absolute classic. With its two key ingredients--rum and butter--it ought to be a hit. It's a shame that fruitcake as a species gets such a bad rap. I have been making this particular fruit cake recipe for about 28 years now. Mary Berry’s rich traditional Christmas cake recipe is filled to the brim with fruit, as well as almonds, brandy and treacle.

Soak the fruits overnight before you start making the cake and it'll result in a plump and juicy filling. It's a traditional cake for weddings, birthdays and Christmas in Australia. Discover 10 ways to decorate your Christmas cake to turn your fruit cake into a festive showstopper.

This recipe includes dried fruit, instead of the glowing, candied stuff we've all learned to associate with fruitcake, and is less dense and more cake-like than many fruitcake recipes. It’s different than other Red Velvet Cakes I’ve tasted over the years, since this one tastes only mildly chocolate and the icing is as light as snow. Although I submitted the original recipe, I personally would soak the fruit for a day or two in port or brandy before I baked the cake, as I like a really moist and boozy fruit cake. I have made this and enjoyed a lot with my family. In our family no one thinks it’s Christmas without this Red Velvet Cake recipe. I baked the first one for Christmas in 1963 when I found the recipe in the newspaper and my Mother kept the tradition going into the ’80s.

I had never made fruit cake before, but this Christmas I decided to try it out, and I am so happy I found this recipe!

It tastes just like the fruit cake my neighbor orders from a … It will be Christmas in less than a month, but there is still time to soak dried fruit in rum or brandy to make the perfect fruit cake.