Hundreds of home cooks have given this delightfully gooey dump cake top marks for taste and ease. Bake in a 9x13-inch dish at ...

Holiday baking is a chance to honor traditions both familiar and far-flung, and these festive cakes highlight the flavors and stories that shape celebrations around the world. From the crisp ...

Don’t roll your eyes! There IS a universe in which fruit cake can actually taste good and have a place on the holiday dessert table. I promise, this fruit cake is not the doubles-as-a-doorstop variety ...

The key to making a good fruitcake is not to make a fruitcake. Forget about that syrupy-sweet, hard-as-a-brick loaf studded with colors that don’t even exist in nature. Instead, start with a ...

Christmas fruit cake is a traditional bake that improves with age. Making it weeks in advance allows the fruit to soften and spices to mellow. Regular feeding with spirits like rum or brandy adds ...

CLAXTON, Ga. (WTOC) - Over a century ago, a traditional holiday dessert put the small town of Claxton, Georgia on the map. The festive treat is none-other-than the Claxton “world famous” Fruit Cake.

They’re low fuss, feed a crowd and travel well. By Margaux Laskey Margaux Laskey, a senior staff editor for New York Times Cooking, prefers sheet cakes for their frosting-to-cake ratio. Feb. 15, 2023 ...

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 ...