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best ever fruit cake

(1 rating)
Recipe by
Sharon Booth
Jacksonville, FL

This is the only fruit cake you'll ever have to have a chaser for. It is so moist, not like store bought fruit cakes. and not gummy.

(1 rating)
yield serving(s)
cook time 3 Hr

Ingredients For best ever fruit cake

  • 16 oz
    candied cherries
  • 16 oz
    candied pineapple
  • 1 c
    raisins
  • 4 c
    peacans broken nuts + whole for top of cake
  • 1 c
    granulated sugar
  • 2 c
    all purpose flour-sifted
  • 1/2 tsp
    baking powder
  • 1/2 oz
    vanilla extract
  • 1/2 oz
    lemon extract
  • 1 pt
    whiskey: early times or ancient age
  • 1/2 c
    butter -no substutes
  • 6 lg
    eggs

How To Make best ever fruit cake

  • 1
    Cut fruit into medium pieces add rasins. Soak mixture in whiskey over night or longer in tightly sealed container not plastic. Stir often. Cream butter, sugar,add well beaten eggs-Blend well. Add extracts & sifted flour,baking powder.Drain off any whiskey if any from fruit mixture. Save for pouring over cake after done. Fold in fruit and nut mixture. Pour into well greased tube pan. Line bottom with waxed paper over greased pan. Grease wax paper also. Place in cold oven. Bake at 225 or 250 for about 3 hrs. Cool in pan. Then you can drizzle any left whiskey over cake. Cake can be frozen wrapped in aluinum foil. Leave waxed paper on cake. Will last a year or indefinitely.

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