Best Ever Fruitcake

Best Ever Fruitcake

Ingredients
  

  • 24 oz pecans
  • 1 lb candied pineapple
  • 1 lb candied cherries
  • 1 lb white or golden raisins
  • 1/2 lb butter
  • 2 1/4 cups sugar
  • 6 eggs
  • 1 oz bottle of brandy or rum flavoring
  • 4 cups flour
  • 1 tsp nutmeg
  • 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp salt

Instructions
 

  • Line baking pans with aluminum foil.
  • Mix butter, sugar, eggs and flavoring until creamy and smooth, stir in dry ingredients, and add fruit and nuts. Mix well.
  • Fill pans 2/3 full. Bake in slow oven (275°). Bake tube cake about 3 hours, smaller loaf pans 2 hours, or until golden brown
  • Wrap cakes in wine soaked cloth and store in air tight container in cool place for several weeks.

Notes

Mom Helling’s recipe

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