15 fruit loaf recipes

Simple fruit loaf made with Weetabix cereal, golden raisins, and milk. This British-style breakfast bread is lightly sweet and wonderfully moist.

A traditional English fruit loaf where dried fruit soaks overnight in hot tea, then bakes low and slow with self-rising flour, mixed spice, nutmeg, and marmalade. No butter needed. Keeps brilliantly.

Hearty bread machine buckwheat bread with applesauce for natural sweetness and moisture. A coarse-crumbed, slightly sweet loaf that pairs beautifully with fruit and cheese.

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.

Fig raisin cake with brown sugar, cinnamon, and boiling water-soaked dried fruit baked into a dense, spiced loaf. An old-fashioned fruit cake with deep caramel flavor.

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.

Apricot bread machine loaf with chopped dried apricots, apricot preserves, and applesauce for a soft, fragrant fruit yeast bread. Toast for breakfast or slice for cream cheese sandwiches.

Frozen fruit salad with strawberry Jello, pink lemonade, whipped topping, peaches, grapes, bananas, and cherries. Molded in a loaf pan and sliced to serve. A retro potluck classic.

Orange spiced fruit bread baked in a Bundt pan, packed with dried figs, golden raisins, and cranberries. A no-knead yeast loaf brushed with honey-orange syrup and finished with an optional citrus glaze.

California fruit bread made with whole wheat flour, bananas, pineapple, apricots, and golden raisins. No added sugar or butter in this naturally sweet, freezer-friendly loaf.

Orange-cranberry bread for the bread machine with whole wheat flour, dried cranberries, fresh orange juice and zest, and cinnamon. A hearty, fruit-studded holiday loaf.

Bread machine loaf studded with mixed dried fruit and a hint of applesauce for moisture. Soft, lightly sweet yeast bread that works on regular, rapid, or delayed cycles.

Banana loaf with lemon zest, dried apricots, and nuts in a moist quick bread batter. A citrus-bright twist on classic banana bread with chewy fruit pieces throughout.

British tea loaf with raisins and sultanas steeped overnight in cold tea, baked with brown sugar and self-rising flour. A no-butter fruit bread that's moist and dense.

A lemon-scented yeast bread studded with blueberries, made entirely in your bread machine. Five minutes of hands-on work gets you a soft, fragrant loaf with pops of fruit in every slice.