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Grandma Betty's Fruitcake Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 lbs candied mixed fruit
½ lb red candied cherries
½ lb green candied cherries
1 can (20 oz) crushed pineapple, well drained
15 ½ oz unsweetened apple sauce
3 tsp baking soda, mixed into the applesauce)
1 box seedless raisins (12oz)
½ lb walnut meats
2 tsp allspice
2 tsp nutmeg
3 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp salt
4 eggs
3 c sugar
2 sticks butter
4 c flour
Directions:
Directions:
Preheat oven to 325 º degrees
Cream butter with electric mixer
Add sugar, cream well
Add spices and salt
Add eggs and beat well
Add the fruits, alternating with flour – the mixture will become VERY thick. You will need to switch to a heavy duty wooden spoon to mix. Stir in applesauce. Line tube pan or large bundt pan with wax paper. Fill pan ½ – ¾ full.

Bake around 3 hours, checking regularly around the 2 ½ hour mark with a toothpick. When the toothpick comes out clean, the cake is ready.

Let cool until you can carefully unmold the cake.


*Optional: the original recipe calls for cherries and pineapple rings to be placed on top of the cake once it comes out of the oven. My mother-in-law does not do this.

 

 

 

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