Cake Recipes

Old Fashioned Southern Fruitcake

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Ingredients

  • 1 (32 ounce) container chopped fruit mixture (candied apples, pineapples, red cherries, green cherries)
  • 8 ounces whole green candied cherries
  • 8 ounces whole red candied cherries
  • 1/2 cup pitted dates, chopped
  • 2 cups dark raisins
  • 2 cups white raisins
  • 1 cup walnuts, chopped
  • 1 cup Brazil nuts, chopped
  • 2 cups pecans, chopped
  • 1 cup pecan halves
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 cup light brown sugar
  • 2 cups self-rising flour
  • 2 sticks butter, softened
  • 1 tablespoon each rum, black walnut and vanilla flavor
  • 5 eggs
  • 1/2 cup dry sherry (for pouring over the baked cake)

Instructions

  1. Pour the mixed fruit, raisins and chopped nuts into a large bowl. Add the 2 cups all-purpose flour and mix until fruit and nuts are coated with flour.
  2. Pour a cup of sherry over the nut and fruit mixture. Mix well and cover. Let set for at least 2 hours.
  3. Heat the oven to 250 degrees F.
  4. Combine 1 tablespoon each of walnut, rum and vanilla flavor with eggs, flour, butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl. Use mixer and mix until batter is smooth.
  5. Gradually stir the fruit and nut mixture into the batter. If it gets hard to stir, add about 1/2 cup sherry or water.
  6. Line Bundt-style cake pans with wax paper. Grease paper lining lightly with butter or spray oil coating. The mixture will be thick, so use a scoop to stuff the mixture in the cake pan. Decorate the fruit cake with whole red and green cherries (alternating) and pecan halves.
  7. Bake in a preheated 250 degrees F oven for 3 hours or until a wooden pick inserted in the cake comes out clean. Pour sherry over the cake and place in closed container.
  8. Store in a decorative tin.


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