What are your favorite holiday cake recipes from the past? Are you wanting to switch it up this year and try some new cake ideas? We decided to pair with a few of our blogger friends and dig through Stagetecture’s archives to bring Christmas, Thanksgiving, and all the holidays in between cake recipes. Whether you like light and fluffy or sweet and decadent, we have you covered! Let us know which of these 19 holiday cake recipes you love the most!
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19 Of Our Best Holiday Cake Recipes
1. Holiday Cake: Turtle Pumpkin Cheesecake Recipe
Starting off this holiday cake recipes list with a sweet and succulent cake that will have you and your guest begging for more.Oh who doesn’t love rich goodness of cheesecake? And how many of us like cheesecake that carries extra goodies on top, bottom and inside? If that is you then this holiday cake recipe is made for you. Turtle Pumpkin Cheesecake recipe, has all of the usual ingredients but has a mixture of pumpkin spice as an additional flavor. Not to mention chocolate and caramel sauce drizzle on top along with toasted pecans. Make your tongue say “Mmm-hmm.” Go ahead and make this holiday cake recipe a family favorite this season. We also like this Brandy Cheesecake Recipe.
2. Sugar-Free Dessert: Applesauce Cake Recipe
Now not all cakes have to be sugar filled like this next recipe for example. Typically, being on a sugar-free diet is not a part of the holiday plan. However, just because something is sugar-free doesn’t mean that it can’t be just as flavorful as a sugary delight. Try this Sugar free dessert: Applesauce Cake Recipe. This cake is completely simple to make and there are only a few substitutions that will only add to the deliciousness. Plus, when eating this cake you can still appease those sweet tooth cravings without feeling any guilt or heaviness when you’re done. Go ahead try it out!
3. Brown-Sugar Bourbon Bundt Cake
You can’t have a true holiday without a bundt. And here is one bundt cake recipe that you can’t miss out on. Ladies and gentlemen, now introducing the Brown-Sugar Bourbon Bundt Cake recipe. Who doesn’t remember when you were in the kitchen and your grandmother or mother was filling the bundt pan with batter right before sliding the mixture into the oven? From this recipe you get the wonderful goodness of the maple brown-sugar emersed with a little liquor to enhance the sweetness of the entire cake that the family will adore.
4. Holiday Cake Favorite: Ambrosia Coconut Cake Recipe
Thanks to Southern Living, the Ambrosia Coconut Cake recipe is at our fingertips. This exotic cake recipe not only gives the sweet and refreshing flavors that everyone will love but can also serve as wonderful décor. It only takes a few easy steps to make and even better to taste, it is sure to quickly become a holiday tradition.
The holidays are a great time of the year. And what better way to celebrate it than with a baking recipe that will help to bring the entire family together. And these holiday cake recipes are just a small few of what you and your family can create. Don’t be limited and see what you all can come up with. Also, Stagetecture readers, do you have any recipes that you would like to share for the holidays?
15 Blogger Friends Holiday Cake Recipes
1. Holiday Rum Cake
2. Cranberry Orange Cake Recipe
3. Eggnog Bundt Cake Recipe
4. Tropical Christmas Cake
5. Cinnamon Roll Layer Cake
6. Gingerbread Bundt Cake With Vanilla Glaze
7. Gingerbreak Cheesecake
8. Ferrero Rocher Cake
9. Old Fashioned Jam Cake
10. Cranberry Pumpkin Upside Down Cake
11. Butter Crunch Cake
12. Cranberry Upside Down Cake
13. Simple Chocolate Peppermint Cake
14. Spiced Chocolate Eggnog Cake
15. Fresh Cranberry Cake Recipe
Do you want a chocolate cake recipes for the holidays?
Try this Moist Chocolate Cake Recipe!
Looking for more yummy desserts? Take a look through our dessert recipes category.
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FAQs
You can use rum, brandy or whisky for spice, or if you like citrus flavours, try an orange liqueur. Cherry brandy and amaretto will also work well if you prefer these.
What is another name for Christmas cake? ›
A Christmas cake is a heavy cake containing much driedfruit and usually having a covering of icing. It is made to be eaten at Christmas. It can also be called a fruitcake.
How do you serve Christmas cake? ›
Feeding the cake is a matter of personal preference but it is a good idea to feed it shortly after baking, while the cake is cooling in its tin. Then you can feed the cake one a week or once a fortnight. Use 1-2 tablespoons of alcohol each time and it may help to use a skewer to poke some holes in the cake first.
How to make a James Martin Christmas cake? ›
Grease and line a 28cm bundt cake tin. Beat the butter with the sugar until light and fluffy, add the eggs and milk and mix, then fold in the flour spices and fruit until well mixed. Fold into the wet mix. Bake for 1¼ to 1½ hours until golden brown and firm in the middle, spoon over brandy then cool.
What does adding alcohol to cake do? ›
In some recipes, booze plays the major liquid part, like this wine cake. The wine not only gives it a sweet, boozy flavor, but also a nice, moist bite. This works especially well in cakes that are soaked after cooking, like sticky toffee pudding (make it with bourbon) or coconut cake (try coconut rum).
What is the best alcohol for fruitcake? ›
Evenly pour 1.5 - 2 ounces of your favorite bourbon, rum, brandy, or cognac, over the fruitcake.
What is the oldest Christmas cake? ›
But a Michigan family has its own heirloom: a 141-year-old fruitcake. “It's a great thing,” said Julie Ruttinger, the great great granddaughter of Fidelia Ford, who baked the cake in 1878. “It was tradition.
What does it mean to call a woman a Christmas cake? ›
25 rolls around — a fact that gave birth to an unfortunate bit of old Japanese slang: "Christmas cake" was used to refer to an unmarried woman who was over 25 and thus, considered past her prime.
What is the traditional cake eaten at Christmas? ›
Christmas cake is a type of cake, often fruitcake, served at Christmas time in many countries.
How many weeks before Christmas should you make a Christmas cake? ›
Some say you should make your Christmas cake 6 weeks before eating, but the advice given on Nigella.com is that 12 weeks before is the optimum time to get baking. Your Christmas cake should be fed every 4 to 6 weeks but in the meantime, after baking, it should be stored away in a secure, air tight container.
Fruited Christmas Cakes are traditionally covered with marzipan followed by a layer of white icing. You may wish to Feed and Store your Christmas Cake before adding the icing layers. Traditionally the white layer would be royal icing although you could use vegan royal icing or shop bought fondant icing.
Why do you put newspaper around a Christmas cake? ›
Hello, The brown paper is tied around the outside of the tin to protect the edges from getting overcooked during the long slow cooking.
What is a Christmas tree cake? ›
Christmas Tree Cakes®, Chocolate-flavored
A tree-shaped chocolate flavored cake with chocolatey creme filling. Decorated with chocolate-flavored frosting, red and green sprinkles, and a white frosting stripe. The weather outside is frightful - time to snuggle up with a steamy mug of hot cocoa and unwrap a fudgy treat!
What is Christmas cake called? ›
A Christmas cake is a heavy cake containing much dried fruit and usually having a covering of icing. It is made to be eaten at Christmas. It can also be called a fruitcake.
What is feeding a Christmas cake? ›
Don't worry we aren't talking about serving it a plate of sprouts, feeding your cake simply means drizzling it with some liquid, typically alcohol such as brandy or sherry or alternatively you could use fruit juice.
What kind of alcohol do you use for cakes? ›
Baking with booze—such as bourbon, rum, port and vodka—can add additional flavor, texture and even change the consistency of many baked goods. Take pie dough for example, adding a splash of vodka produces a super flakey dough and develops less gluten in the dough than water.
Which alcohol is best for preserving cake? ›
A good cake does not need preservative as it is not meant to stay for ever. However, some wedding cakes that are fruit based or fruit cakes in general tend to stay longer than normal because of the fact that the dried fruits used are soaked in rum, brandy or the likes.
What to use instead of brandy in Christmas cake? ›
Whiskey serves as a great substitute for brandy in a fruitcake. Although whiskey comes from fermented grain mash while brandy is made from fermented grape mash, the process is so similar, that the flavor will be similar as well.
What is a good substitute for sherry in Christmas cake? ›
Dry Vermouth
Griffin says dry vermouth is the best direct substitute for cooking sherry because it mimics the flavor of sherry better than other options without the need for extra salt. Vermouth is a fortified white wine flavored with aromatic herbs, bitters, and spices, so it will add a ton of character to your dish.
