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.

This rich fruit cake uses a very easy all-in-one method, with very little prep. Adding cocoa for richness works well with stout. Don't hold back on the glacé cherries as the sweetness of them ...

Although this cake does not contain plum, the fruit, as the name may suggest but plum actually refers to prunes or raisins. Plum cakes originally refers to the early type and style of fruit cake in ...

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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 ...