Summer fruit season is here! After you have added that fresh goodness to quick breads, pies, cobblers and ice cream, it’s ...

The best fruit cakes are matured for at least a month and moistened or ‘fed’ from time to time with alcohol such as sherry, Madeira or brandy ... such as a Christmas cake, the batter needs ...

Brandy is a fermented fruit juice spirit ... And, if worse comes to worst, you can always make several batches of pound cake and see what works best. But of course, extra cake is never really ...

Although this cake does not contain plum, the fruit, as the name may suggest but plum actually ... You may or may not add rum or brandy, as used in some regions. This cake is great as a dessert with a ...

Soak the chopped apricots and dried fruit except the cherries ... the fruit will have absorbed the brandy. Grease and line a 20cm/8in-deep round cake tin with a double layer of greased greaseproof ...

This brandy and date fruitcake ... soaked dates to the cake batter, this cake has a much lighter crumb than the typically denser and heavier traditional fruit cakes.

Place the cake on a tray of salt ... Allow to cool in the tin. Put all fruit except cherries into a bowl add the brandy and leave to soak overnight. Beat butter, brown sugar, then add the ...

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 ...

in which the fruit is soaked in orange juice and brandy (drinking the leftover fig-infused liquid after you’ve made the cake is the ultimate cooks’ perk). These brandy-soaked figs are ...

Or upside down cake. Or brandied cherries. The latter might be one of the easiest ways to use cherries in a spectacular way. Cherries, brandy ... is by using the fruit with the pits.

the only Merlot base brandy. Amber in color, the nose shows mulberries, vanilla, glazed cherries, dried fruit with cinnamon, cedar wood, the taste of raspberries and cherry fruit cake, milky ...