15 dried fruit cake recipes

Fruit puffed cookies made with angel food cake mix, dried fruit, and pecans. Just 4 ingredients for light, airy cookies that puff up golden in under 10 minutes.

Fruit ginger drop cookies made with gingerbread mix, candied fruit, and chopped nuts. A 4-ingredient holiday cookie ready in 25 minutes.

Granny's boiled fruit cake: an old-fashioned eggless, butterless loaf made by simmering raisins with sugar and shortening, then folding into spiced flour. Plump, moist and Christmas-ready.

They're supposed to be cookies, but with the texture of muffins. It's a good blenndd:] it's soft, yet cruchy on the outside. if you leave them for longer, it'll also turn slightly chewy.

Easy fruit cake made with applesauce instead of butter for a lighter, lower-fat version. Packed with mixed dried fruit, baked low and slow. No oil, no egg yolks. Makes one dense, fragrant loaf.

Homemade jelly candies with pectin, sugar, corn syrup, and citric acid: customizable molded sweets flavored and colored any way you like. Firm, chewy, and old-fashioned.

Rolled oatmeal cookies with whole wheat flour, dried fruit, and buttermilk. Thin, crispy cut-out cookies made with oil instead of butter, no eggs required.

Vegan fruit cake packed with dried fruit, candied peel, orange rind, and almonds, leavened with a soy milk and vinegar reaction instead of eggs. A dense, dairy-free holiday cake baked low and slow.

Chewy oat and dried fruit breakfast bars with orange juice, cinnamon, and brown sugar. Freezer-friendly grab-and-go bars that take just 10 minutes to prep for a whole week of mornings.

Big-batch raisin bran muffins spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves, loaded with mixed dried fruit and nuts. Buttermilk batter that keeps in the fridge for weeks.

Healthy breakfast bran muffins with carrots, walnuts and dried fruit.

Teisen Sir Fon: a traditional Welsh fruit cake from Anglesey, made with lard, molasses, mixed spice, ginger, and dried fruit. Humble, deeply flavored, and rooted in North Wales tea-time baking.

These cake-like bars are great for breakfast or snack. For the filling, you can use whatever your favorite dried fruits to substitute the dates.

Soft, cake-like apricot cookies with jewel-toned jam centers that bake up tender and light. Chopped dried apricots in the dough add chewy bits of fruit throughout each cookie.

Roasted acorn squash halves glazed with chutney and filled with a curried herb stuffing studded with dried fruit. Baked in apple juice and beef broth for deep, sweet-savory flavor. A stunning fall side dish.