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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kathy Ann Paul shows off one of her first Christmas black cakes of the season at her Trinidadian restaurant-bakery Sweet Hand Kathy in Miami Gardens. This story was first published on Dec. 17, 2018.

Preparing the prized Christmas cake requires time and patience, so with just a month left for the festival, we invite city bakers to reveal their tricks to get it right It isn’t too early to be ...

“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 ...