Quality Ingredients

We never settle for second best when it comes to our ingredients. You only get from a recipe what you put in, so we add outstanding Lexia raisins and Vostizza currants to our fruit cakes, along with tamarind paste, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, coriander, cloves and mace. And, of course, we don’t forget the booze; in some of our cakes you will find Jamaican rum, brandy and oloroso cream sherry.

Only the finest unsalted butter goes into our premium buttercream and biscuits, while Madagascan vanilla extract – the best in the world – makes our vanilla sponges really sing.

We freely use stem ginger, sticky black treacle and English marmalade in our recipes, while our icings are naturally coloured with beetroot, paprika, turmeric and blueberry wherever possible.

At Fiona Cairns Ltd, we are constantly trying out new recipes and ideas so that you will always be able to find your favourite , as well as discover new ones.

‘The raisins were so plentiful and rare, the almonds so extremely white, the other spices so delicious, the candied fruits so caked and spotted with molten sugar to make the coldest lookers-on feel faint.’
Charles Dickens