Boiled cake recipes

Boiled Cake: A rich fruit cake where the dried fruit is boiled, along with some of the ingredients, before baking. It's very similar to the Rich Fruit Celebration Cake and, if you're pushed for time for a Bara Brith, try this recipe instead. For decades, I have …

There is nothing like an old fashioned boiled fruit cake recipe as it yields a super moist, soft and dense Christmas Fruit Cake that lasts for long!!

A moist and fudgey chocolate cake without the fuss! A family favourite.

Easy Peasy Christmas Cake

This cake is very moist, but my grandmother never added an icing. She made a cinnamon glaze.

Moist chocolate cake that lasts a long time and freezes really well.

Mum and I are venturing north tomorrow to pick up eight years’ worth of junk from my sister’s house in York. She’s decided to move back down to London but seeing as I, the youngest sibling by a good six years, am the only one of us that can legally drive; I’ve got to mission it up there to help her move. This means leaving the men to fend for themselves which they get very grumbly about and usually ends in a stack of Dominoes boxes. I thought I’d make a cake to leave for them because I’m far…

Irish Farmhouse Boiled Fruit Cake Both the English and Irish halves of me adores this lovely cake. Perfect for St Patrick's day celebrations...especially with a wee glass of Jameson's or a good strong cup of tea. It so reminds me of the family farm in Ireland and the wonderful Sunday afternoon teas we enjoyed. Always with ham sandwiches, hard boiled eggs, floury potatoes and salad, boiled fruit cake & soda bread and buckets of hot tea. Such wonderful memories. Gorgeously moist this has to be…

November 11th. is a very special day in which we honour and pay tribute to all of the men and women that have selflessly served and sacrificed so much for our freedom. We remember the fallen soldiers for their bravery and also their families for the hardships they had to endure in the aftermath of such tragedy and loss. Today, I thought I would share a recipe that many boys on the front lines would receive from loved ones back home. This "Wartime" Boiled Raisin cake was a favourite during…

This boiled pineapple fruitcake is a great option for all fruitcake fans. We love to use it as a base cakle when doing heavy decorating, as a christmas cake, and one to slice-up and take hiking. Leftovers are greats for rumballs too. #bushcooking #fruitcake #boiledfruitcake # cake #christmascake