Preheat your oven to 180°C and line a 2lb loaf tin with baking parchment. Cream the butter and sugar until the mixture is light and fluffy and pale in colour. Slowly add in the eggs, if the ...

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.

I love that it is an Amish friendship bread without starter, plus it’s easy! Just throw together and let it bake. It’s like a coffee cake and is perfect for enjoying breakfast! So crumbly and ...

Add the dried fruit and orange zest. Bring to the boil, then remove from the heat. Leave to cool a little, then beat in the eggs and fold in the dry ingredients. Scrape into the prepared cake tin ...

The French queen Marie Antoinette supposedly said, "Let them eat cake!" Our Founding Fathers said, "Let us eat cake." And I say, the Founders were onto something. Let’s bring back cake on ...

This apricot cake has cropped up at many special events in our family over the years, including when my mother made it for my wedding and my sister’s 21st. It’s always lovely and moist because ...

Olive Oil gives not only gives this fruit cake an incredible tenderness and moistness (no more dry horrid fruit cake!) but it also lends a gorgeous fruity herbaceous flavour that lifts a “plain ...

Americans feel “that longingness there,” as Pennington put it to me—“a struggle to figure out how to communicate and connect and make time for” friendship. This difficulty arises ...

Here, we tackle France’s “invisible” apple cake, which features thin slices of fruit that melt into a custard-like filling when baked. But apples make great savory fare, too. A mixture of ...