140 brandy cake recipes

Traditional Sicilian fruit-filled pastries stuffed with figs, dates, chocolate chips, nuts, and warm spices, glazed with a lemon icing. A holiday cookie tray showstopper.

Layers of homemade sponge roll with raspberry jam, sherry-soaked custard, crunchy amaretti, and piped whipped cream make this Scottish trifle a showstopper British dessert.

Brandied raspberry sauce made with frozen raspberries, sugar, and cornstarch thickened with brandy. A quick dessert topping for cheesecake, ice cream, or pound cake.

Rich chocolate Cajun pound cake with devil's food mix, chocolate pudding, rum extract, and chocolate chips. Topped with a glossy cocoa glaze. Easy one-bowl recipe, bakes in under an hour.

A traditional European-style fruit cake -- Although fruitcakes have a bad reputation, this one is *excellent*.

Flourless chocolate souffle cake with a full pound of semi-sweet chocolate, brandy, and nine eggs. Dense, fudgy, and gluten-free with no flour needed at all.

Super moist friendship cake starts with a 30-day brandied fruit starter, layering peaches, pineapple, and cherries, then bakes into a tender, fruit-and-nut loaf. The shareable holiday baking tradition.

Velvety brandy sauce made in 5 minutes with butter, powdered sugar, and brandy extract. Drizzle over bread pudding, holiday cakes, or warm fruit desserts for an instant upgrade.

Flourless chocolate cake with bittersweet chocolate, ground almonds, espresso and brandy. A naturally gluten-free torte that's dense, fudgy, and dinner-party ready.

Lane cake filling with egg yolk custard, brandy, candied cherries, raisins, pecans, and coconut. The classic Southern frosting for a traditional Lane cake.

No-starter friendship Bundt cake with brandied fruit, coconut, dates, and a hit of orange and walnut extracts. The classic friendship cake without the 30-day countdown.

Friendship brandied fruit is a perpetual fermented fruit compote built over months by adding peaches, pineapple, cherries, sugar, and brandy to a starter. Spoon over ice cream, pound cake, or yogurt for an instant dessert.

Cherry and almond Christmas cake: maraschino cherries, apricots, ginger, and almonds macerated in amaretto and brandy, baked into a lighter apple-puree batter, then soaked in more amaretto. A boozy, fruit-packed festive cake that keeps for a month.

Chocolate mocha macadamia cake glazed with shiny ganache. A barely-flour single-layer cake built on ground macadamias, espresso and Cognac for richness without going dry.

Election cake is a yeast-raised colonial American cake with brandy-soaked currants, mace, cinnamon, and lemon. A slow-rising, historically rich sweet bread traced to 1700s New England.

Friendship cake bakes brandied fermented fruit starter into a tender tube cake with golden raisins, nuts, and orange extract. The classic 30-day starter dessert passed kitchen to kitchen.