unbaked fruit cake

Name: Unbaked Fruit Cake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Yield: 20
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 2 cup(s) pecans, chopped; 2 cup(s) chopped dates; 1 can(s) eagle brand milk; 1 pound(s) graham cracker crumbs; 8 ounce(s) maraschino cherries, drained and chopped, save the juice; 1 stick(s) butter; 2 cup(s) miniature marshmallows

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Joyce Lowery

Sterlington, LA

Updated on Jun 7, 2013

I don't like traditional fruit cake, so this is the one that my mother always made for me during the Christmas holidays. It tastes more like candy than fruit cake.

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prep time 20 Min

cook time 20 Min

method No-Cook or Other

yield 20 serving(s)

Ingredients

2 cups pecans, chopped
2 cups chopped dates
1 can eagle brand milk
1 pound graham cracker crumbs
8 ounces maraschino cherries, drained and chopped, save the juice
1 stick butter
2 cups miniature marshmallows

How To Make unbaked fruit cake

Step 1

Melt the butter in the cherry juice. Add the dates and cook until they soften.

Step 2

Add the marshmallows. Melt. Add the eagle brand milk. Mix well.
Step 3

Add graham crackers and chopped pecans. Press into a buttered bundt pan.
Step 4

Note: The original recipe calls for 1/4 cup shredded coconut. I leave it out because my family will not eat coconut.
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