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 ...

It may be early November, but now is the perfect time to bake a cake that will mature into something truly special by Christmas.

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: ...

The secrets of this rum-apple compote are the two types of apples, one tart and one sweet, and gold rum that adds a light ...

“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 ...

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.

Dessert: A classic French dessert, a sweet brioche like cake, soaked in a rum syrup, and topped with a delicious whipped ...

“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 ...