Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fruitcake placed amid winter greenery - Vaaseenaa/Getty Images It just wouldn't be Christmas without fruitcake, and while in ...

“I started soaking my fruit two weeks ago,” I bragged to my brother-in-law at Thanksgiving last year. He glared at me: “Good. You can make a black cake next year, then.” Mind you, this is my ...

BERKELEY, Calif. — Classic cake-making calls for eggs, flour, butter and sugar. But some bakers are juicing up the flavor by throwing liquor into the mix. Or, as Terry Lee Stone, co-author of the ...

Fruit cake is a dense, moist dessert made with a mix of nuts, dried fruit and spices. The finished cake is “soaked” in brandy, rum or whiskey and wrapped in plastic wrap and foil for a few months. As ...

Fruitcake, that darling of regifters, is a dense, heavy ceremonial cake commonly appearing during the holidays. It contains candied and dried fruits, citron, candied fruit rinds, nuts, spices, lots of ...