This one, from his best-selling cookbook, “Fruit Cake: Recipes for the Curious Baker” (William Morrow; $32.50), is fed a generous cocktail of white rum, orange liqueur and pomegranate juice ...

The Holiday Fruit Cake recipe is from “Crisco’s Favorite Family Foods Cookbook.” The Dark Fruitcake, Janice Pike’s White Fruitcake, and The Italian Thyme and Fig Fruitcake recipes are from ...

In a climate like the American South's, you'd think people would want light, refreshing desserts -- sorbets, maybe. Actually, Southerners are crazy for cake.Crazy-kooky-nutsy, with frosting on it.

On Dec. 16, 1969, Lehman thought she'd be prepared, making the recipe early not only for Christmas but also in advance of the projected delivery date of her son, Jeremy, in a few days.