LMX Unlimited presents a recreation of the iconic Sylvan Harvest Fruitcake.
Made with spruce tips, juniper berries, baby pine cones, black currants, and cedar nuts.
 
Infused with spruce tip liquor. Mass: 430 grams. Keep refrigerated and in a dark place.
As old as America, dense fruitcakes have long characterized the winter season in the Midwest. And no fruitcake is more iconic in Michigan than the Sylvan Harvest Fruitcake. LMX Unlimited undertook extensive archival research and paid great attention to the specificities of local produce to recreate this now-defunct holiday treat.
 
Syrup-stewed baby pine cones, fragrant spruce tips, young cedar nuts, sun-dried juniper berries, and ripe black currants are preserved in dense confectionery dough. The cake is assembled during the harvest using the finest forest produce and carefully preserved in the following months. It is slowly matured through repeated applications of a bespoke spruce tip liquor, allowing the fully aged cake to last indefinitely. A luxurious treat to savor during the holidays, the final cake is imbued with the flavors and sensations of the forest, offering a transporting eating experience that evokes the deep cultural heritage of 300 years of Michigan folkways.
 
The Sylvan Harvest Fruitcake is intended to last throughout the holiday season and be slowly savored. Each ingredient has been carefully preserved to deliver an intensely resinous, arboreal flavor. Each cake ships in our recreation of the original 1968 pyramidal packaging, tied with an LMX ribbon. Cakes are best sliced in small portions and served cool. Kept refrigerated, a Sylvan Harvest Fruitcake can last for a long time. Like fine wine, aged cakes continue to develop and deepen in flavor over time.
 
The crafting of fruitcake from the foraged treasures of the temperate boreal forest has been a folk tradition for Michiganders since French settlement. Suppressed by the larger monoculture of American commercialism, the folk practice of forest fruitcakes reemerged as a beloved tradition in the late 1960s. The Sylvan Harvest Fruitcake was developed by the Nationalities Administration of the Laurentie Commonwealth during its brief influence in the region (1968–1974). A product of ethnographic research, the fruitcake was crafted for the people of Michigan using the traditional ingredients of the early Michigander diet. It was mass-produced and widely distributed throughout the nascent cultural Commonwealth.
 
Our recreation is the closest commercially available alternative to the original beloved product.
 
SHIPPING ONLY IN THE USA.