As the holiday season approaches, food becomes a central theme in celebrations, especially within the African diaspora.

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.

Learn how to make Thanks Giving Special, Pineapple Upside Down Cake at home with The Bombay Chef Varun Inamdar on Get Curried ...

Take your regular salsa up a notch by adding diced star fruit. Mix it with chopped tomatoes, onions, cilantro, lime juice, ...

Fruit-filled cakes are the perfect way to bring fresh flavors to dessert. Whether you love the bright tang of citrus, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Preheat the oven to 300°F. Grease a round 9- or 10-inch cake pan, and line bottom and sides with several layers of waxed paper. 2. In a large bowl, with an electric mixer on high, beat the butter and ...

When that failed, yet another was baked - "an oblong fruit cake", McMahon recalled - this time containing a blank key and a set of files so it could be shaped to fit the lock. The blank was given ...

Preheat the oven to 170C/335F/Gas 3 and line a 25cm/10in round deep cake tin with non-stick paper ... then stir in the fruit. Mix the flour and soda together, then stir this through evenly.

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 ...

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 ...