Good Tasting Fruit Cake

A quick and easy fruit cake for tea time that tastes best fresh out of the oven.

Good tasting fruit cake.

My 94 year old mom used to make this but she now can t remember what the recipe is or where it is. Fruit cake is labeled as a cake. Holiday bourbon fruitcake rating. Beat in eggs and vanilla.

You can use any mixed dried fruit you like including cherries. Combine fruit and nuts. See the best cake recipes. While this recipe has received rave reviews and become a staple for many readers i ve teamed up with all clad to showcase their new pro release bakeware set and silicone tools and give this fruit cake recipe a new and improved update.

Trusted recipes for chocolate cake white cake banana cakes and carrot cakes with photos and tips from home cooks. In another bowl cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. It s one of the best selling fruitcakes on amazon so act. No self respecting cake would ever be this dense.

Recipe originally submitted to allrecipes co uk by tessaann. And this is incredibly misleading. Preheat oven to 300. Unrated 9 moist and tasty fruitcake is made with all types of candied fruit and nuts with a hint of.

As a result if you order a one pound fruitcake which sounds substantial its actual size is going to be quite small. This is the best fruit cake ever without all the overly sweet candied fruit. A door stop is a better descriptor and what most people use this seasonal baked good for. I also cut the sugar down just a little bit.

The ridicule that most fruitcakes face has everything to do with bad recipes which skimp on fruit and load on the batter in a good fruitcake the batter should barely be perceptible acting merely as adhesive to bind the fruit and nuts broken down into its parts a good fruitcake contains ingredients that most people love. I have searched and searched for this recipe. This bakery founded by an italian immigrant has been around for more than a century. An important note on size.

Plump dates candied cherries almond extract pecans walnuts and sugar. Fruitcakes have a tendency to be dense with the weight of fruit and nuts. Claxton fruit cake only makes 375 pounds of the holiday treat at a time and its hallmark fruitcake 25 95 and up has natural raisins candied cherries pineapple lemon orange peel almonds walnuts and georgia pecans in it. Thank you taste of home for keeping it online.