Not the kind you re gift actual delicious food yum the first record of fruitcake dates all the way back to roman times which was made with fruit and seeds in the middle ages people made their fruitcake a little sweeter with the help of honey and a little spicier with the help of different spices still the history of fruitcake as we think of it today is closely related to the european nut harvests of the 1700s after the harvest was complete nuts from the harvest would be mixed together