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 ...

If you thought you could never like a fruitcake, don't throw in the towel until you've tried black cake, the tasty holiday treat made throughout the English-speaking Caribbean for Christmas, New ...

On All In A Day this week, two fruitcake makers — one pro, one not — encouraged haters to give the much-maligned cake a second chance. Ottawa pastry chef Adam Ceniako's version is heavy on fruit and ...

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 ...

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 ...