Make this Christmas cake a couple of months in advance, if you can, and feed it with rum to give it time to mature and develop deep flavour and texture Prep: 25 mins Cook: 2 hrs and 10 mins Easy ...

For the 15cm/6in tier, cream the butter, sugar and vanilla together in a bowl until well combined. Gradually beat in the eggs, one at a time, until well combined. Stir in the dried fruit, orange ...

Packed with plums, roasted nuts, dark chocolate and orange it has all the ingredients of any time of the year. This cake can also be made with dried rather than fresh fruit, so you may want to ...

Perfect for Dundee cake and light, rich fruit cakes. Dark brown soft sugar: I use tons of this one, loving its moist, fine-grained texture and fudgy, dark-brown flavour. This sugar says gingerbread, ...

Perfect for Dundee cake and light, rich fruit cakes. Dark brown soft sugar: I use tons of this one, loving its moist, fine-grained texture and fudgy, dark-brown flavour. This sugar says gingerbread, ...

Soak the fruit overnight: Stir golden raisins, raisins, chopped pitted, dried dates, dried cranberries, dried chopped ...

Hers were the old-timey dark fruit cakes loaded with everything from candied cherries to citron. The addition of citron was not my favorite. I did like the cherries. My late husband’s ...