This is a gorgeous, sweet and spicy plum cake– great as a pudding or with afternoon tea. If you’ve never tried making a cake, this would be a great place to start. Set the oven to 180C/350F ...

Juicy plum and vanilla flavors combine to create this delicious upside-down cake. Pudding adds texture to this cake, not icing, so the plum flavor can shine through the subtle sweetness and the ...

“Then plum pottage, much like our beloved mince pies, took shape over the 17 th and 18 th centuries, as the recipe’s meat was gradually left out in favor of suet. It was the invention of the ...

You will need: 175g (6oz) butter. 222g (8oz) caster sugar. 3-4 tablespoons brandy or whiskey. 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Beat the butter to soften it, then add the caster sugar and beat until the ...

Sweet recollections are once again the theme of much of our reader mail. Bakers dug into their files and came up with cakes that appear to meet Annette Achermann's standards for a sweet breadlike ...

Figgy pudding is a steamed cake that usually consists of dried fruit, brown sugar, candied orange peel, eggs, breadcrumbs, warm spices like nutmeg and cloves, and suet (beef or mutton fat). Once ...

Chocolate Plum Pudding Cake Ingredients 2/3 cup raisins 3/4 cup all-purpose flour 3/4 cup whole wheat flour 2 teaspoons baking soda 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ...

Christmas can only be complete with a Christmas tree, plum cake and the potent pudding. However, making it is not easy, as it requires long planning and cannot be baked overnight.

Figgy pudding is a pudding in the British sense of the word, which means it is a steamed cakelike dessert. This particular Christmas version is traditionally made with suet (which is raw beef or ...

Specifically, that one in the second verse: "Oh, bring us some figgy pudding." Not often, I bet. And that's one reason I wound up at the Manship House Museum's visitor's center the week before ...