LITTLE ROCK — Recipes that appear in Idea Alley have not been tested by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Monica Ball shares this recipe for Friendship Fruit and Cake. Ball’s version of the fruit ...

Chef Carla Hall had never heard of "friendship bread" before someone gave her a plastic zip-top bag full of a yeasty, mushy starter. As a young caterer just starting out, she got busy baking up a ...

Friendship cakes and bread have one thing in common: A starter is required. A number of readers have asked for the recipe for both the starter and bread. The procedure sounds lengthy, and it is.

Dear Lisa: I am looking for the recipe for the starter to a friendship cake. You start out with the starter and add peaches and sugar. Then after 10 days, you add pineapple and sugar; then after 10 ...

Dear Lisa: I used to love to make a cake called "Friendship Cake" or the 30-day cake. You would get your starter from a friend, and every few days you would add a fruit and sugar until it was complete ...

In a small bowl, dissolve yeast in water. Let stand 10 minutes. In a 2-quart nonreactive container (made of glass, ceramic or plastic), combine 1 cup flour and 1 cup sugar. Mix thoroughly or the flour ...

Bake a delicious Orange Chocolate Chip Amish Friendship Bread with starter. The perfect sweet bread AFB variation for sharing, gifting, or enjoying yourself. Be sure to get my free printable recipe ...

In the 20-plus years that I have written this column, I have met some of the nicest people. Some keep in touch even though they have moved away, and others communicate through Facebook or Messenger ...

If you were a fan of the so-called Amish Friendship Bread recipe that was popular in the 1980s and early '90s, but tired of the tending and maintaining and sharing of the starter, I have good news for ...