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Chocolate Fruitcake Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
½ stick butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
½ cup cocoa
1 tsp. baking soda
2 cups flour
1 cup buttermilk
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups seedless raisins
1½ cups mincemeat
1 cup pecan pieces mixed with ½ cup flour
10 pecan halves, for garnish

Directions:
Directions:
Preheat oven to 250º. Grease and flour 10-inch Bundt pan.
Combine flour and baking soda; set aside.
Cream butter and sugar.
Add egg, vanilla and cocoa and beat until creamy.
Blend in flour mixture, alternating with buttermilk.
Add mincemeat, raisins and pecan pieces.

Pour batter into a greased and floured bundt pan. Press pecan halves on top. Bake at 250º for 1½ to 2 hours, or until wooden pick comes out clean. Cool 15 minutes. Turn out of pan.

Delicious and beautiful!

Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Nothing says, "Christmas is here" like one of mom's fruitcakes!

 

 

 

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