Fruit Cake
Here is one for you. Even my mother who hates fruit cake likes this one. I also have a
no-bake recipe if anyone is interested? That one uses marshmallows and graham crackers so
the neices and nephews love it.
cake:
3 large oranges
1c dried cranberries
3/4c golden raisins
1/2c chopped currants
1/2c chopped dried apricots
2c sugar
1c butter, softened
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
3c flour
1tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground ginger
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1c butter milk
1c chopped walnuts
icing:
1-8 oz pkg cream cheese, softened
6 Tbl confectioners sugar
dried fruit for garnish(optional)
Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Butter and flour a 10-inch tube pan. Grate zest from
oranges to make 3 Tbls for cake and 2tsp for icing. Squeeze oranges to make 2/3c juice for
cake and 1/4 for icing. Set aside In a medium saucepan, combine dried cranberries, rasins,
currants, apricots and 2/3c orange juice. Bring to a boil reduce heat and simmer for 5
minutes, or until fruit is well plumped. Drain well and set aside. In a larger mixer bowl,
bream sugar and butter until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time; beat well. Add 3 Tbl
grated orange zest and vanilla; beat well. Alternaely add combined dry mixture and
buttermilk to creamed mixture. Stir in walnuts and fruit.
Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes, or until golden brown and a
wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan forr 10 minutes.
Remove to a wire rack;cool completely
For icing, beat together cream cheese and confectiners sugar untill smooth. Add 1/4c
orange juice and 2 tsp orange zest; beat well. Spread icing on top of cake. Garnish with
additional dried fruit if desired. These can be made up to 5 days ahead with good results.
Just thaw them atleast 30 minutes ahead of time. If yo freeze them they can be stored up
to 2 months with no trouble, just use freezer safe bags or aluminum foil.
Kaliedra~
~One of life's greatest tragedies is to not get your hearts desire.... the other is to get
just that~
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