For Texas bakery, the traditional holiday fruitcake is no joke

For Texas bakery, the traditional holiday fruitcake is no joke

In a holiday full of classic confections — candy canes, gingerbread and sugarplums — there’s one that’s showing up less often: fruitcake. The treat’s been on fewer and fewer dessert tables in recent decades. That may be thanks in part to Johnny Carson’s declaration years ago: “The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.” But fruitcake has been at historic events for ce…