Old Fashioned Fruitcake Recipe

Old Fashioned Fruitcake Recipe

from restlesschipotle.com
120 min
20 servings

This easy fruitcake recipe has been in our family for years. It's full of dates, candied cherries, candied pineapple, and pecans that make it more like candy than a cake! No need to let it "ripen" it's great the same day it's made! This recipe makes 2 (5x9-inch) loaves.

Ingredients

  • 1 pound pecans
  • 1 pound dates (pitted and chopped)
  • 1/2 pound candied cherries ((red and geen))
  • 1/2 pound candied pineapple ((red and green or yellow))
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 3/4 cup flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (or 1 tablespoon rum, bourbon, or brandy)

Directions

  1. 1

    Preheat oven to 250° degrees (that is not a typo-TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY degrees)

  2. 2

    Place a pan 1/3 filled with boiling water in the oven to create steam. Put it on the rack under the rack where the fruitcake pans will got.

  3. 3

    Fill the pan with hot water as needed during baking.

  4. 4

    Spray two 9-inch loaf pans with cooking spray and line with wax paper or parchment paper.

  5. 5

    Spray wax paper with cooking spray.

  6. 6

    Chop dates and nuts.

  7. 7

    Add them to a large bowl.

  8. 8

    Sift dry ingredients over fruit and nuts and mix in with your hands.

  9. 9

    Beat eggs until light, add vanilla and pour over fruit, mixing well. (you will probably need to mix with your hands - it's messy.)

  10. 10

    Spoon fruit cake batter into prepared pans, pressing down gently to remove large air bubbles and spaces.

  11. 11

    Place the filled loaf pans onto the rack above the pan with hot water.

  12. 12

    Bake at 250 for 1 hour and 45 minutes.

  13. 13

    Let cool.