For many in the Caribbean diaspora, there is no substitute for this deeply flavorful fruitcake. By Ramin Ganeshram By Thanksgiving week, every surface of Marva Adams-Miller’s Brooklyn home is crowded ...

Dessert lovers from Chile to Pakistan to Fiji claim it as a national treat. How did it get there from the woods of Germany? The cake, long an adopted favorite in many countries, is more popular than ...

Adams-Miller, who lives in Mill Basin and is from Trinidad & Tobago, learned to make the cake in 1985 from her father, a pastry chef. When she moved to Brooklyn, in 1993, “word got around that I made ...