Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, fruit cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Fruit cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Fruit cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook fruit cake using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Fruit cake:

1. Prepare 1/2 cup red candied cherries
2. Make ready 1/2 cup green candied cherries
3. Prepare 1 1/2 cups candied pineapple, diced
4. Prepare 1/2 pound walnuts, halved
5. Take 1 cup golden raisins
6. Make ready 1/2 cup shortening
7. Take 1/2 cup sugar
8. Prepare 3 large eggs
9. Prepare 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
10. Get 1 1/2 cups flour
11. Take 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
12. Take 1/2 teaspoon salt
13. Take 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
14. Get 3/4 teaspoons nutmeg
15. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon allspice
16. Take 1/4 teaspoon cardamom

Add the egg to the cooled fruit mixture and stir in well. Add the flour and mix well. Turn into the prepared cake tin, smooth the top and arrange optional almonds on the top. For the Everyday Fruit Cake: Put all the ingredients except the fruit into a large bowl (or your mixer/food processor). (Butter, eggs, milk, jam, sugar, flour, spice) Beat together well, but don't overdo it.

Instructions to make Fruit cake:

1. Preheat oven to 300° and grease a 9x5 loaf pan.
2. Add your shortening and sugar to a stand mixer on medium speed for 1-2 minutes until light and fluffy.
3. Add in the eggs one at a time, then add in the vanilla.
4. Add in the flour, baking powder, salt, and spices until just combined then fold in the chopped dried fruit and walnuts.
5. Pour the mixture into your loaf pan.
6. Bake for about 90 minutes.
7. Cool for 10 minutes then remove from your loaf pan carefully and allow to cool completely before slicing or wrapping as a gift.

Turn into the prepared cake tin, smooth the top and arrange optional almonds on the top. For the Everyday Fruit Cake: Put all the ingredients except the fruit into a large bowl (or your mixer/food processor). (Butter, eggs, milk, jam, sugar, flour, spice) Beat together well, but don't overdo it. Scrape the mixture down and mix again. Add the dried fruit and stir in by hand. Make and soak the dried fruit mix.

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