This is a classic cassata (Sicilian rum cake) — sponge cake, liquor, candied fruits, ricotta cheese — minus the marzipan. Incorporate 1/3 of the whites into the yolk mixture. Sift 1/4 cup of the flour ...

Baking a flawless rum cake requires science, technique, and some know-how. Leave it to a trained chef to help demystify some ...

You know a dish was beyond just good when you can still recall the taste of it decades later. In this instance, I’m talking about a rum cake so amazing that my husband and I would trade manual labor ...

I used to make a couple of different pound cake recipes, but then my 99-year-old aunt said to me, "You need to spice it up. Why don't you put some rum in it?" So I was like, "OK!" It's all about the ...

The iconic upside-down cake of the American imagination is a golden sponge gilded with a slick of caramel, a corona of sweetened pineapple rings and incandescent maraschino cherries. Yet as sunshiny ...