These Irish Halloween recipes are centuries old, but are still wholesome and delicious for all your spooky costumed party monsters! Hosting a Halloween party? You'll have to get some real food into ...

When the boss gently hints that you should do something, it’s prudent to pay attention. Fortunately, the gentle hint I recently received was regarding sharing a recipe for Irish food, so I’m all in. I ...

Ireland has some spooktacular Halloween traditions and one of our favorites has always been the anticipation of who will get the ring in the traditional Barmbrack bread. Barmbrack is a fruit-filled ...

It is time for Barmbrack to grace bread bins and cupboards across the country yet again, and like Halloween itself, the cake has roots in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. The fortune-telling ...

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Who knew that the quaint Irish tradition of baking fruitcake could take such a spooky twist during Halloween? Known locally as Barmbrack or simply “brack,” this festive treat isn’t just delicious-it’s ...

Barmbrack is a traditional Irish fruit cake, which I used to get in my school lunchbox around Halloween every year. Traditionally, a ring is baked into the cake, and there would be great excitement ...

A zombie enjoys a bite of pan de muertos at a Day of the Dead celebration in Atlanta, Georgia. ERIK S. LESSER/epa/Corbis The history of Halloween can be traced back to Samhain, an old Gaelic festival ...

Barmbrack is a traditional Irish sweetened bread not dissimilar to the Welsh bara brith. In Gaelic it’s known as báirín breac, or ‘speckled loaf’, due to the way the dough is dotted with raisins. When ...