LIST: Where to get fruitcakes for Christmas
Fruitcake is one of the most iconic Christmas foods. It has become a tradition to give them as gifts or serve them as dessert for Noche Buena. Although the fruitcake traces its roots in Europe, over the centuries, it has become part of Filipinos' Christmas celebrations.
Where to get fruitcakes this Christmas? / Source: @judsfruitcakes (FB) and @tildeskitchen (IG)
The famous Christmas cake has been around since the ancient Roman times and is prized for its long shelf life. This is why fruitcakes make the perfect food item to give as Christmas presents.
So, if you're planning on giving your friends and loved ones this traditional Christmas food, below are the list of shops where you can get fruitcakes.
Ju.D's Fruitcakes
Ju.D's Fruitcakes offers a wide variety of the iconic Christmas dessert. They have the classic fruitcake aged with rum and brandy. They also have honey-based fruitcake, coffee fruitcake, and a coffee prune cake, which is a fruitcake with only prunes and walnuts.
Tilde's Kitchen
Tilde's Kitchen's homemade fruitcake comes in two packaging, the gold packaging (P500/pc) and the hard packaging (P550/pc).
Tilde's Kitchen's homemade fruitcake / Source: @tildeskitchen (IG)
Tita V's Kitchen
For only P250, you can have Tita V's Kitchen's festive, moist 400-gram fruitcake made with dried fruits, nuts, and spices, and soaked in spirit.
Tita V's Kitchen's fruitcake / Source: @titavskitchen.ph (IG)
Fruitcake by Carmen
If you want fruitcake made with organic baking essences, then you should try Fruitcake by Carmen. They also have a 2/3 less sugar fruitcake.
Reduced sugar fruitcake / Source: @fruitcake.by.carmen (IG)
The Try Kitchen
Quezon City-based dessert shop The Try Kitchen offers their homemade fruitcake for P600. It comes in this gorgeous tin can packaging with a holiday ribbon, and you also have an option to add a holiday card.
The Try Kitchen's fruitcake / Source: @thetrykitchen (IG)
Mainel's Cakes and Pastries
Mainel's Cakes and Pastries, based in Valenzuela City, is open for preorders of their fruitcake priced at P700. Delivery dates for the preorders will be from December 1 to 23.
Mainel's Cakes and Pastries' fruitcake / Source: @mainelscakes (IG)
Scrumptious Sweets by Freida
Lipa City-based dessert shop Scrumptious Sweets by Freida has fruitcake overloaded with fruits and nuts. They come in boxes and tin cans, which makes them ideal Christmas gifts.
The Vegetarian Kitchen
If you're vegan, you can still enjoy the classic holiday staple food because The Vegetarian Kitchen has a vegan fruitcake. It is dubbed as Manila's first vegan fruitcake, meaning it has no dairy and egg.
It's made with applesauce, pineapple, candied fruits, walnuts, dates, and raisins. Their 500-gram fruitcake is priced at P450, while their 1,000-gram fruitcake that comes in a tin can is priced at P750.
Source: @thevegetariankitchen (IG)
Lots of options on where to get fruitcakes for Christmas, huh? Whether you want fruitcake with less sugar or strictly vegan, or you want it in a box or tin can, there's definitely a fruitcake that's perfect for you or the person you want to give it to. Merry Christmas, mga Kapuso!
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