Here is my mom’s recipe: dense fruit cake made with dried fruits and nuts soaked in rum. Depending on how much you like rum soaked cake, you can soak it in rum and ripen the baked cake anywhere from ...

In 1950, home cook Ann Corn and Courier-Journal Home Consultant Cissy Gregg agreed that "more people ruin fruit cakes and nut cakes by over baking than by not baking them enough. ... We used plenty of ...

“You should have started months ago. You remember. This is a cake that requires your attention, your respect and, most importantly, your time.” These were my mother’s parting words to me when I told ...

Martha Stewart shares the cake she asked her mom to make for her each year on her birthday, and it's a fruit-packed vintage ...

Poke cakes are steeped in tradition. But New York City recipe developer Jason Schreiber’s soaked cakes have an undeniably modern sensibility. This one, from his best-selling cookbook, “Fruit Cake: ...

silver dragees for decorating the cake (available at specialty foods shops and many supermarkets) In a large bowl, combine well the raisins, prunes, currants, cherries, lemon and orange peel, wine and ...

It’s the only dessert fit for a king but with its own cartoon character, Rum Baa Baa. A rum baba is a humble yeast cake with dried fruit, a little larger than a biscuit. Its sole purpose in life is to ...

Fruit cake—rich, dense, and packed with dried fruits, spices, and a splash of brandy or rum—is a classic dessert that transcends seasons and generations. Whether served during the holidays, at ...

PERHAPS YOU just returned from a spring-break visit to the tropics; if you didn’t, you are even more sorely in need of this cake. Run through with caramelized pineapple, toasted coconut and a splash ...

There are few desserts more reviled, and therefore dismissed than a Christmas fruitcake. And for good reason, they’re often hard, tasteless bricks that arrive from a mail-ordering relative you’d ...

1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Grease a 10-inch tube pan with a little butter, then dust it with flour, shaking out any excess. 2. Whisk together the flour, salt and baking powder in a bowl. 3.

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