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Easy Fruitcake

Source of Recipe

The Lodge Steward


Recipe Introduction

Making a fruitcke does not need to be complicatred to taste good. Always serve Fruitcake thinly sliced.

List of Ingredients

Here is a good quick and easy way to make a Fruitcake.
Get a good Pound Cake mix. I like Duncan Hines myself. I will always remember the slogan they had on the box when I was a kid; "President Wilson's Favorite." Well Pound Cake has always been a favorite of mine too.

Gather together the ingredients you want such as: 8 ounces of Candied Cherries, I like the red and Green; 8 ounces Pitted Dates; 8 ounces Cashew halves & pieces; 8 ounces candied Pineapple; and anything else you like to have in a Fruitcake.


Recipe

Mix up the Pound Cake according to the package directions.

Add the ingredients you want in the Fruitcake. I think a lot of these ingredints is a good thing. Mix it all thogether.

Prepare two loaf pans by greasing well a piece of aluminum foil and lining the pans with the foil. Then put about half of the mixture in each loaf pan. [if you really have a lot of the good things in the batter you might want to use 3 loaf pans.

Bake it according to the package directions. It is done when a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Take out of pan and bend aluminum foil away from the sides to cool. When cool wrap in foil and place in refrigerator for a day or two. The Fruitcake cuts much better after it has aged a couple of days in the refrigerator.

That's it. this makes a pretty good tasting Fruitcake, and it's a snap to make. The more ingredients in the batter the better, as far as I'm concerned. One of the nice things about this is that you include the things you most like, or you can customize it with the favorite things someone else likes if you plan on giving it to them as a gift.

Enjoy!