Homemade fruit cake recipe

Fruit cake enthusiasts will take pleasure in this tasty do-it-yourself good fresh fruit dessert. Just like the fruit desserts that my mother and Grandma made every Christmas season.

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Recipe Type: Cake, Fruitcake
Yields: 1 large fruitcake
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 3 hour 20 min

Components:

1 1/2 cups candied yellow pineapple, chopped
1 1/2 cups candied red cherries, sliced
1 glass raisins
3/4 cup currants
2 glasses chopped pecans or walnuts
1/2 glass white grape liquid
1 glass butter or margarine, room-temperature
2 glasses firmly-packed light brown sugar
5 eggs, room temperature
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon baking soft drink
1/2 tsp surface cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground mace
1 tsp almond extract
Brandy

Planning:

Grease a 10-inch tube or bundt pan; range with wax report and oil well.

In a large bowl, combine candied pineapple, candied cherries, raisins, currants, and pecans or walnuts. Add grape liquid; stir until well blended. Allow stand 1 hour.

Preheat oven to 275 degrees F.

In a sizable bowl, cream butter or margarine. Slowly add brown sugar, stirring until light and fluffy. Include eggs, one-by-one, beating really after each inclusion.

In another huge bowl, combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and mace; gradually enhance butter blend. Add almond extract and fruit mixture; blend until well blended. Spoon into prepared pan.

Bake 3 hours and 20 moments or until a toothpick placed to the cake comes out clean. A great check is to utilize an instantaneous digital thermometer to test your fruitcake. The inner temperature is between 200 and 210 levels. Pull from oven and sweet in a rack.

Pull from oven and cool off on a wire rack for thirty minutes. Remove from cooking pan, peel paper liner from dessert, and prepare entirely.

Wrap in a brandy-soaked cheesecloth; shop in an airtight container for one week. After one week, shop in the refrigerator.

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