It’s stuffed with sticky dates and treacly brown sugar and laced with ginger and rum. ‘Nicky’ may stem from the original technique of covering the filling with a whole piece of pastry then ...

The almond cream-stuffed puff pastry has a flaky crust with orange and rum overtones in the rich ... on a lightly floured surface to an 11- x 11-inch square. Cut pastry into a 9 1/2-inch round ...