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Buckingham-cakes

Classic English Fruit Cake 750g

The original Buckingham® recipe with over 45% real fruit. The traditional English fruit cake is where it all started. We've never changed the recipe, and it's still our most popular fruit cake to buy. 

Serving Size: The Classic English Fruit Cake weighs 750g (1-lb 10-oz), providing 8-10 servings.  

Why Not Try: If you're looking for a stronger English fruit cake with alcohol, why not try our Whisky Fruit Cake 750g

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Additional Information

Recipe & flavour

Recipe: Our Classic English Fruit Cakes are made with traditional pure British butter, juicy sultanas, raisins, currants, sumptuous cherries, tangy orange and lemon peel, and a pinch of spice. 

Flavour: Deliciously rich, dark, moist, and fruity. Traditional English fruit cake, just as you remember it. The essential English cake, which perfectly complements a good cup of tea or coffee. 

Presentation

Packaged in a beautiful keepsake tin, exclusive to Buckingham Cakes, decorated with a specially commissioned painting of fruits by a local artist. 155mm diameter and 90mm high.

Send as a Gift

If you're buying a fruit cake as a gift, we can include your personal message, which we’ll print on a premium card and pack with the cake. Don’t forget to write who it’s from.

  • Click on 'VIEW MY CART'. Once a product is in your cart, you can type your personalised gift message, just before you complete your purchase. After adding your message, you MUST click 'Save'.

We do not enclose an invoice or any indication of order value with the cake.

We pack all our cakes in a smart presentation box which is very strong and specially designed to protect the cake during mailing. 

We regret that we cannot deliver on a specific date. If the cake is for a special event, like a birthday, we recommend ordering early.

Shelf Life & Storage

All our fruit cakes are date-marked. Upon delivery, the cake will have a minimum of 30 days' shelf life remaining. Store in a cool, dry place, out of direct sunlight. No need to refrigerate. Do not freeze.

Ingredients

All our fruit cakes to buy are hand-made in small batches, then packaged by hand. We will not compromise on the quality of our ingredients. Our philosophy is "quality not quantity". 

INGREDIENTS: Vine Fruits (41%)(Sultanas, Raisins, Currants), Pasteurised EGG, WHEAT FLOUR (With Added Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Butter (MILK, Salt), Brown Sugar, Candied Cherries (5%)(Cherries, Glucose Fructose Syrup, Fruit & Vegetable Concentrate: Carrot, Aronia; Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid), Black Treacle (Cane Molasses, Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup), Mixed Peel (Orange Peel, Lemon Peel, Glucose Fructose Syrup, Sugar, Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid), Humectant: Glycerine, Preservative: Potassium Sorbate, Mixed Spice (Cassia Cinnamon, Coriander, Ginger, Allspice, Nutmeg, Cloves), Raising Agent: Sodium Bicarbonate, Salt. 

No artificial colours or flavours. No palm oil. No alcohol. Made with a nut-free recipe. 

Allergens

For Allergens and Cereals containing Gluten see ingredients bold/capitalised. Made in a bakery handling soya, sulphites and other cereals containing gluten.

Nutritional Information

Typical values per 100g:

  • Energy 350 kcal / 1472 kJ
  • Protein 4.0g
  • Fat 10.6g
  • of which Saturates 6.2g
  • Carbohydrate 59.5g
  • of which Sugars 48.2g
  • Fibre 2.2g
  • Salt 0.44g