Nothing brings in the holiday season like a fruitcake, whether it's fresh or regifted. For several decades, the delicacy has been the butt of many holiday jokes and still gets a bad rap as one of the ...

December is the month to bake our traditional family holiday favorites. With so many competing demands on our time this month, I’ve simplified the recipes. In my family, Christmas Day was my ...

The holidays always bring up conflicts — not just about family or politics, but important things like which seasonal treats are disgusting and which are delicious. Strong feelings tend to arise when ...

CORSICANA, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) — As Christmas quickly approaches, hundreds of Texans are flocking to a small town to pick up a special desert as part of their holiday tradition. About 50 miles south of ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Turkey, ham, or prime rib roast? What about pumpkin or sweet potato pie? We can all probably come to the reasonable conclusion that these are perfectly acceptable Christmas-time ...

There are a lot of jokes about a fruitcake’s longevity. For Collin Street Bakery, the holiday confection isn’t a joke, but key to its own longevity. For 126 years the Corsicana bakery has been making ...

It was around Christmas in 1989, when Johnny Carson held a small box up to the “Tonight Show” cameras. “What do you think this weighs?” Carson said, his wrist bending from the weight. “It’s only a ...

As someone who recoils at the mere thought of candied peel or maraschino cherries, I too have reflexively avoided fruitcake for most of my life. But this year, I started wondering if maybe I’d been ...