Fruit cake

Fruit cake

Ingredients/Components

• sugar - 1 c
• flour
• butter - 1/2 lb
• baking powder - 1/2 tsp
• walnuts, chopped - 2 c
• pecans, chopped - 2 c
• candied pineapple - 1/2 lb
• dates - 1 c
• red candied cherries
• green candied cherries - 1/4 lb
• pure lemon extract - 1 Tbsp
• pure orange extract - 1 Tbsp
• large eggs, beaten well - 5 item

How to make fruit cake:

Cream butter and sugar; add eggs. Dredge fruit in part of flour. Add extracts to egg mixture. After dredging fruit; add to egg mixture and also add remaining flour. Add nuts and mix well. Grease tube pan. Pour batter into tube pan and place in cold oven. Bake at 250° for 3 hours. (Put a pan with 2 cups water on bottom shelf of oven.) Batter can be baked in 1 pound loaf pans or cupcakes at 250° for 1 1/2 hours.

Recipe categories: Desserts, Cakes, Fruit.