astray recipes: Colorful deluxe fruit cake

Categories: Cakes
Yield: 5

Measure	Ingredient
1½ cup	Sifted all purpose flour
2 teaspoons	Baking powder
1 teaspoon	Salt
½ teaspoon	Nutmeg
½ teaspoon	Cinnamon
¼ teaspoon	Allspice
½ teaspoon	Mace
¼ teaspoon	Clove
1 cup	Butter
½ cup	Sugar
½ cup	Honey
6	Eggs, well beaten
1 teaspoon	Vanilla
½ cup	Orange juice
2 pounds	Deluxe fruit mix
¼ pounds	(1/2 cup) citron peel, diced
½ pounds	(1 cup) glace cherries, halved
½ pounds	Raisins (1-1/2 cups)
½ pounds	Blanched almonds (1-1/2 cups)
	Cut into strips and toasted
½ cup	Flour for dredging fruit

Sift together the 1-½ cups flour, baking powder, salt and spices. Cream butter, gradually add sugar and honey, beat until fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla gradually. Beat well. Add flour-spice mixture alternately with orange juice, beating until smooth after each addition. Add peels, fruits and nuts dredged with the remaining ½ cup flour. Mix well. Turn into pans lined with three thicknesses of greased brown paper. Fill 8x8x3 pan (large fruit cake pan) with batter. This will fill pan about ¾ full.

Bake at 300 F for approximately 2-½ hours for 8 inch fruit cake pan, less for smaller pans. Makes about 5-½ lbs of fruitcake.

Origin: Found in old recipe box got from garage sale. Shared by: Sharon Stevens

colorful deluxe fruit cake