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Classic English Fruit Cake 425g

Our best-selling Classic English Fruit Cake in a tin, with the original Buckingham® recipe, with over 45% real fruit. This is where it all started. We've never changed our traditional fruit cake recipe, and it's still our most popular small-sized alcohol-free fruit cake to buy online. A classic Christmas fruit cake in a beautiful vintage-style gift tin is a perfect present for luxury food lovers.  

Serving Size: The Classic English Fruit Cake weighs 425g (15oz), providing six generous portions.  

Why Not Try: If you're after a delicious traditional fruit cake with a whisky-infused kick, try our Whisky Fruit Cake 425g

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Additional Information

Recipe & flavour

Recipe: Classic English Fruit Cake is made with 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. Proper old-fashioned fruit cake. The essential English fruit cake perfectly complements a good cup of tea or coffee.

Presentation

Packaged in a beautiful vintage-style keepsake tin, exclusive to Buckingham Cakes, decorated with a specially commissioned design in embossed Victorian style. 130mm diameter and 80mm 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

18 months. Ambient. Very resilient to long shipping times and different climates.  Store in a cool, dry place, out of direct sunlight. No need to refrigerate. Do not freeze.

Ingredients

All our fruit cakes are hand-made in small batches and 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 to 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