fruitcakes
Dense holiday desserts
Fruitcakes are dense cakes studded with candied fruit and nuts, traditionally served during holidays.
The singular fruitcake also means an eccentric or crazy person: My uncle's a complete fruitcake.
This slang sense plays on the cake's reputation for being packed with odd ingredients—and for being regifted endlessly because nobody wants to eat it.
Dried grape snack
- currantsSmall seedless dried grapes
- sultanasPale dried grapes
- citronThick-rinded sour fruit
- nutsSeeds in shells
almonds · walnuts · pecans · brandy · rum · spices · cinnamon · nutmeg
Winter nativity celebration
- giftItem given freely
- traditionCustom passed through generations
- hamperObstruct or clothes basket
- celebrationFestive event marking occasion
feast · caroling · decoration · holly · eggnog · wassail · Advent · stocking
raisins
Dried grape snack
nuts · almonds · walnuts · pecans · brandy · rum · spices · cinnamon · nutmeg · allspice
Christmas
Winter nativity celebration
celebration · feast · caroling · decoration · holly · eggnog · wassail · Advent · stocking · regifting
dense
Closely packed together
sticky · chewy · crumbly · firm · substantial · aged · soaked · boozy · dark · spiced
crazy
Mentally unhinged
oddball · crackpot · kook · weirdo · screwball · zany · madcap · unhinged · batty · bonkers
panettone
Italian candied fruit bread
gateau · teacake · kuchen · cassata · savarin · genoise · coffeecake
fruitcakessponge cakes
Airy egg-leavened pastries
angel food cakes · chiffon cakes · genoise · meringues · soufflés
- nutty as a fruitcakeExtremely eccentric or insane