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Raisins, Pineapple, English Walnuts, Eggs, Flour, Sugar, Brown Sugar, Wine, Cherries, Butter (salt added), Corn Syrup, Currants, Citron, Rum, Orange & Lemon Peel, Pecans, Whole Milk, Imitation Vanilla (propylene glycol, caramel color), Baking Soda, Cinnamon, Mace, Sodium Propionate added as a preservative.
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Raisins, Pineapple, English Walnuts, Eggs, Flour, Sugar, Brown Sugar, Wine, Cherries, Butter (salt added), Corn Syrup, Currants, Citron, Rum, Orange & Lemon Peel, Pecans, Whole Milk, Imitation Vanilla (propylene glycol, caramel color), Baking Soda, Cinnamon, Mace, Sodium Propionate added as a preservative.
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Assumption Abbey fruit cakes are a dark, rich traditional style for fruitcake. Made by Trappist monks in a small monastery in Ava, Missouri, who oversee all stages of production. This rich, dark and spicy fruitcake is spiked with burgundy wine and rum and studded with English walnuts, pecans, pineapple, cherries, raisins, currants, South American citron and orange & lemon peel. This fruit cake is one of our favorites. A perfect balance between cake, nuts, fruit and rum - not too much of any one thing. This two pound fruit cake serves 7-8. Back by popular demand year round!
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By Jim Wunderle
To use layman's terms, the fruitcake made by the monks at the Assumption Abbey near Ava, MO is the Jimi Hendrix of fruitcakes. You can order them directly from the Abbey at [...]
You will never laugh at a fruitcake joke again.
You will never laugh at a fruitcake joke again.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By James Heron
Amazon Verified Purchase
My last review was not a good one because somehow it arrived dried out, actually cracking from dryness and nothing like the many Assumption fruitcakes I had purchased over many years.
This fruit cake was superb ... as good, if not better than the many Abbey fruitcakes I have been ordering for many years. You have restored my faith in this product completely and I will be ordering my usual 10 fruitcakes over the holidays. Fruitcakes as you know get a lot of "bad press" as gifts. I have made it a sort of mission of mine to change that and send them to friends who have never tried them but had sort of "bought into" the bad press. They all have converted ... BUT ... only to the really good ones, Assumption Abbey being the best in my opinion ... although some of the other religious house versions are also quite good. It is the mass produced "name brand" fruitcakes that ruin the fruit cake name and are unfortunately all over the place during the holidays.
My family (I am 70 so this goes back over 60 years) use to make fruit cakes as Thanksgiving and Christmas gifts. We made them in late summer, dosed them gently with brandy, rum, or just plain depending on the taste (and temperance?)of the receipient, wrapped them in cheesecloth and put them away till time to wrapped them as gifts. We took a whole day and all members of the family had a part to play ... some cracked and cleaned the nuts, others worked on the candied citrus (which we also made a month or so earlier), and so on. We had a large pot that had come from a closed bakery that held all the ingredients and we then hand paddled them ... no small task until Mom said OK. People actually asked for them each years, we made 18 or more each year. The receipe has long since been lost and I fell prey to the commercial fruitcakes that never passed muster and stopped eating them. I am a retired Episcopal priest who many years ago made a life long friendship with a Jesuit priest ... who introduced me to the Abbey fruit cake. I have purchased them ever since.
I truly appreciate your gift of a fruitcake to replace the abberation I received the first time. Thanks again, Fr. Jim Heron+
This fruit cake was superb ... as good, if not better than the many Abbey fruitcakes I have been ordering for many years. You have restored my faith in this product completely and I will be ordering my usual 10 fruitcakes over the holidays. Fruitcakes as you know get a lot of "bad press" as gifts. I have made it a sort of mission of mine to change that and send them to friends who have never tried them but had sort of "bought into" the bad press. They all have converted ... BUT ... only to the really good ones, Assumption Abbey being the best in my opinion ... although some of the other religious house versions are also quite good. It is the mass produced "name brand" fruitcakes that ruin the fruit cake name and are unfortunately all over the place during the holidays.
My family (I am 70 so this goes back over 60 years) use to make fruit cakes as Thanksgiving and Christmas gifts. We made them in late summer, dosed them gently with brandy, rum, or just plain depending on the taste (and temperance?)of the receipient, wrapped them in cheesecloth and put them away till time to wrapped them as gifts. We took a whole day and all members of the family had a part to play ... some cracked and cleaned the nuts, others worked on the candied citrus (which we also made a month or so earlier), and so on. We had a large pot that had come from a closed bakery that held all the ingredients and we then hand paddled them ... no small task until Mom said OK. People actually asked for them each years, we made 18 or more each year. The receipe has long since been lost and I fell prey to the commercial fruitcakes that never passed muster and stopped eating them. I am a retired Episcopal priest who many years ago made a life long friendship with a Jesuit priest ... who introduced me to the Abbey fruit cake. I have purchased them ever since.
I truly appreciate your gift of a fruitcake to replace the abberation I received the first time. Thanks again, Fr. Jim Heron+
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By GKP
Quite simply the very best fruit cake ever. After having eaten about a dozen over the past few years, I find the quality to be consistent and the cakes moist & extremely flavorful.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
Assumption Abbey Fruit Cake
Very good but not as good as I remember their being. A few years ago. these cakes were eaten all through the Christmas seasons. Read more
Published 21 days ago by WmDz
5.0 out of 5 stars
the best
love this order it every year,,not too sweet and loaded with fruit and nuts,,not just raisins nice mix of flavors
Published 1 month ago by C. stout
4.0 out of 5 stars
Really great
These are great fruit cakes. I know...how can a fruit cake be great? Trust me just try it and you will see for yourself. No it is not hard and dry. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Reverend
5.0 out of 5 stars
My Dad LOVED this.
I think this stuff is gross, but for people who like Fruit Cake, This is the one to get. I'll definitely get him another one next year.
Published 3 months ago by Kevin S. Brown
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fruitcake
The family members that longed for a good fruitcake were very happy with the quality of the cake. I was told it is a definite to include each year.
Published 3 months ago by SMercer
5.0 out of 5 stars
delight in a can!
All that your mother wanted her homemade fruitcake to be, with just a smidge less love than Mom put into hers!
Published 4 months ago by Donald L. Recker
2.0 out of 5 stars
Did not like assumption abby fruit cake
It didn't arrive on time. Unremarkable taste texture and was sorta dry. certainly did not live up to all the hype. Read more
Published 4 months ago by carl helt
2.0 out of 5 stars
very flat in favor
it was very bland, would not buy again. was not worth the price.
What else is there to say ?
What else is there to say ?
Published 4 months ago by Angela A. Nunley
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Fruit Cake Ever!
This is one of the best Fruit Cakes I've tasted in a long time next to my grandfathers who both made the best fruit cake. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Sandra Albury
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great fruit Cake one of my favorites
This is made by Assumption Abbey in Ava, Mo. I bought mine through Deilsh Baking Co. Assumption themselves were all sold out by the time I placed my order. Read more
Published 4 months ago by don segraves
