Preheat the oven to 300°F. Grease a round 9- or 10-inch cake pan, and line bottom and sides with several layers of waxed paper. 2. In a large bowl, with an electric mixer on high, beat the butter and ...

When making dense fruit cakes such as a Christmas cake, the batter needs to be heavy enough for the dried fruit and nuts to be suspended in it; if it's too thin the fruit will sink to the bottom.

Celebrate Christmas 2024 with these 5 simple cakes: Fruit Cake, Gingerbread, Eggnog, Yule Log, and Chocolate Peppermint. Each offers festive flavors perfect for the holiday season.

This moist fruit cake doesn't need to be fed so it's the perfect last-minute Christmas cake. The cake itself is very easy to make – the tricky part is the icing, but you can obviously decorate ...

Plum cakes originally refers to the early type and style of fruit cake in England and is served widely across the globe, including India, around the holiday season and festival of Christmas. You can ...

The fruit makes for a gooey, jammy core and the rich, crumbly shortcake is packed with flavour. It's great warm from the oven with a dollop of cream. It becomes more cake-like the next day and is ...

saying there were several good Christmas-style cakes in it. I got to work and made my version of the sort of fruit cake I like which is paler than those very dark, more traditional sorts.

A Christmas classic, Kerala’s fruit cake is a fragrant medley of spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger. The rich flavor comes from local fruits and nuts, offering a taste that perfectly ...

In his cosy kitchen, baker Darren Anthony Beins is busy portioning out sugee fruit cakes and sugee cakes to pack as Christmas gifts. “Growing up in the 1970s, my late mother made it a point to ...

ABOUT RM2,500 was raised by the Salvation Army Ipoh Children’s Home through the sale of fruit cakes. The money, raised over Christmas, is to fund the children’s education this year.