Heitritter Family Favorite Fruit Cake
Holly
This is a good fruit cake with just the right almount of spices and loads of cherries and nuts.
ingredients
- 8 oz. candied red cherries, chopped
- 8 oz. candied gr cherries, chopped
- 8 oz. candied pineapple, chopped
- 14 oz. good dates, chopped
- 2 cups walnuts, chopped
- 14 whole pecan, halfs reserve for the top of the loaf
- 1 cup raisins
- 1/4 cup flours
- Cream together
- 1 cup oil
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup honey
- 5 eggs, beaten
- 1 1/2 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon allspice
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon cloves
- 1/4 cup orange juice
directions
- 1
Mix all chopped fruit and nuts, raisins with the 1/4 cup flour. Set aside. In a large bowl cream together oil, sugar, honey, eggs. Add flour, salt, baking powder, spices and o.j. Pour batter over fruit and mix together. Top with the pecan half.
- 2
Prepare greased loaf pans. Fill to 1/2" from the top of the pan. Place loaf pans in a water bath for baking.
- 3
Bake in a slow 250 degree oven for 2 hours. cool, wrap in plastic wrap and let age in the refrigerator.
- 4
You can make small foil loaf pans to give as gifts.
Source: Holly
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