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Prepare the Fruit Mixture
Toss the candied fruit, cherries, pineapple, raisins, currants, and chopped nuts with flour until everything is evenly coated.
Classic Holiday Fruit Cake
Fruit and nuts crowd every dense slice of this gently spiced holiday loaf. Wrap the cooled cakes and give them time to rest so the flavors settle together.
Prep1 hrCook2 hrTotalAbout 5 hoursDifficultyEasy
Ingredients
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Dry Ingredients
Wet Ingredients
Fruit & Nut Mixture
Instructions
- 1 package mixed candied fruit, 8 oz candied cherries, 8 oz candied pineapple, 16 oz raisins and currants, 1 cup nuts, 1 cup flour
- 2 cups flour, 1 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp allspice, ½ tsp cloves, ½ tsp nutmeg
- ¾ cup butter, 1½ cups sugar, 3 eggs
- Dry ingredient mixture, ¾ cup buttermilk
- Prepared fruit and nut mixture
Nutrition (Approximate Per Serving)
Yield
3 medium loaves — Serving size: 1 slice
Some ingredients could not be modeled and may meaningfully change the totals. Treat these values as a rough estimate.
- Calories
- 310
- Carbohydrates
- 52.5 g
- Protein
- 3.5 g
- Fat
- 10 g
- Saturated Fat
- 4.5 g
- Cholesterol
- 40 mg
- Sodium
- 100 mg
- Fiber
- 1.5 g
- Total Sugars
- 39.5 g
