Holy Cross Abbey makes fruitcake and creamed honey and occasionally experiments with additional food products.  See details about these items below!

Sold in the Gift Shop

The best price for Abbey products, as well as the best way to support the Abbey, can always be found at the Monastery Gift Shop. 

In the Gift Shop we also offer many books and gift items, many of which are made at our brother and sister monasteries, as well as some limited-edition items from our bakery on-site which are brand-new this year!  

Come away for a visit, short or long, to the beautiful monastery grounds, pray with us, as well as get your Monastery Products directly from the hands of the monks who make them!

Shipping 

…go to The Bakery Webstore. 

For those who are long-distance or unable to travel, shipping is now once again available, exclusively through the Bakery Webstore.  We cannot take orders by phone, mail, or fax.  To place an order online, go to our secure webstore, www.monasteryfruitcake.org. 

Your order is processed by our shipping partner in Martinsburg, WV, but rest assured that what you receive is the authentic product, fruitcake and/or creamed honey, made in our Berryville monastery bakery.

Wholesale – see the bottom of this page.

FRUITCAKE

MONASTERY FRUITCAKES

A fruitcake from the Trappist monks for those who appreciate quality products, made from an old-fashioned recipe, using choice fruits and nut meats in a brandy-laced batter. These beautiful and delicious cakes are packaged in a reusable decorative tin. Each cake weighs 2 lbs. 4 oz and is generously sized to satisfy family and friends.

This will be the best fruitcake you have ever tasted—as good as the one Grandmom used to make!

The Gift Shop also offers a smaller, 1.5 lb. loaf fruitcake as well as the traditional 2.25 lb. round fruitcake—SMALL FRUITCAKES ARE SOLD OUT (As of 12/12/24) AND THE REMAINING LARGE CAKES ARE SELLING QUICKLY

Again, shipping is only available while quantities last, and only the traditional 2.25 lb. cake.  We will NOT BE TAKING PHONE ORDERS, MAIL ORDERS, OR FAXED ORDERS; please visit our online webstore in order to have a fruitcake shipped to you.

Take time to look at our delicious creamed honeys and monastery truffles before completing your fruitcake purchase, whether through the Bakery Webstore or at the Gift Shop.

CREAMED HONEYS 

Creamed honeys are kept well-stocked, both at our Gift Shop and in our Bakery Webstore.

Monastery Creamed Honey is pure locally sourced honey in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Our creamed honey is 100% natural; it is filtered, so as to remove bees’ wings and honeycomb pieces, but otherwise completely unprocessed, so as to preserve all the health benefits of raw honey. It is naturally crystallized and has the texture of butter, so it is spreadable.  The shelf life is indefinite, and the pure natural flavor (with or without one of the other natural flavors we add) is something you’ll love!  Varieties sold include: 

Natural 
Cinnamon
Almond
Lemon
Brandy
Blueberry
Orange
Raspberry

MONASTERY TRUFFLES are produced specially for us at DeFluri’s Fine Chocolates in nearby Martinsburg, WV.

WHOLESALE ORDERS – Those who are interested in bulk discounts for large orders of Fruitcake and/or Creamed Honey, for shipment to one address, should send an email to bakery@virginiatrappists.org.