One can slice into the square slab of fruit cake and see evidence of how it came to be: the ingredients, and the skill with which they have been baked together. These creations have been impressing ...

The weekend before last, 68-year-old southeast Queensland dairy farmer Geoff Beattie woke once again to face another sorrowful anniversary of his wife Elaine’s death. But something was different this ...

In a bowl mix together the cherries, mixed peel and dried fruit. Pour over the brandy and soak overnight. Preheat oven to 180C and line a 20cm cake tin with baking paper. Add the almonds, carrot, ...

Flatten using the back of a spoon then put to one side to set. Add the passion fruit puree and coconut sugar in a small saucepan and place over a medium heat until it almost comes to the boil. Remove ...

Moist, dark: It starts one or two days earlier with the fruits put in a plastic bag with sherry. Photo: LINDSAY KEATS Alison's husband Peter is particularly partial to dark fruit cakes. This lovely, ...

Coimbatore: While the rich dark fruit cake continues to be the most popular Christmas goody, Coimbatorians can enjoy a crusty bite of Italian Christmas delicacy panettone, a slice of the German ...

Featured in Bake, a cookbook paying homage to Irish women bakers, Winter Brack is packed full of fruit, warming spices, almonds and orange. Twelfth Night is the last great frolicking feast of ...

I think it’s hard to improve on this cake: dark, damp, squidgy and luscious. You don’t taste the chocolate full-on – the cocoa just leaves a hint of smoky richness. Nor, I should add, do you taste the ...

The best fruit cakes are matured for at least a month and moistened or ‘fed’ from time to time with alcohol such as sherry, Madeira or brandy. Fruit cakes made solely from dried fruit will keep for ...