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 ...

This is my mom’s recipe for a dense fruit cake made with dried fruits and nuts soaked in rum. Depending on how much you enjoy rum-soaked cake, you can soak it in rum and ripen the baked cake anywhere ...

Place all the fruit and rum into a large mixing bowl. Cover with plastic and leave overnight. Pre-heat oven to 150 C. Line two 18cm cake tins with baking paper. Add coconut to the fruit mixture and ...

1 pound dried (not candied) pineapple, cut into 1/2-inch pieces 1 pound dried papaya, cut into 1/2-inch pieces 1 cup each macadamia nuts, pecan halves and coarsely chopped walnuts (total 12 ounces) ...

The key to making a good fruitcake is not to make a fruitcake. Forget about that syrupy-sweet, hard-as-a-brick loaf studded with colors that don’t even exist in nature. Instead, start with a ...

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 ...

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: ...

Fruitcake is usually the butt of holiday jokes, but that doesn't mean it's flavor is anything to laugh at. This chocolate fruitcake comes from a recipe created by Marie Rudisill, author of Fruitcake ...

“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 ...

Prepare fruit; place in a bowl with peel, pineapple and rum; soak overnight. In another bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add Beaten eggs gradually, mix well. Then add fruit with nuts, orange rind and ...