A staple of holiday-season late-night commedians and the butt of family jokes, fruitcakes have a reputation for longevity. Apocryphal stories of great-great Aunt Gertrude’s cake being passed around as a boondoogle family heirloom give way to a century-old fruitcake found in Antartica in 2017.
Years ago I conceived of this project, to test out the lore around fruitcakes—for I seem to be in the rare majority of people who actually like (well-made) ones. Thus was born the Century Fruitcake project: sixteen fruitcakes, all baked on 10 December 2025, to be opened on a one-hundred year schedule:
- 10 December 2026 (1 year)
- 10 December 2027 (2 years)
- 10 December 2028 (3 years)
- 10 December 2029 (4 years)
- 10 December 2030 (5 years)
- 10 December 2032 (7 years)
- 10 December 2035 (10 years)
- 10 December 2040 (15 years)
- 10 December 2045 (20 years)
- 10 December 2050 (25 years)
- 10 December 2055 (30 years)
- 10 December 2065 (40 years)
- 10 December 2075 (50 years)
- 10 December 2085 (60 years)
- 10 December 2100 (75 years)
- 10 December 2125 (100 years)
For more information, contact info@centuryfruitcake.org.