AMERICAN FRUIT CAKE RECIPE

This recipe of the American Fruit Cake is a wonderful moist cake. Once your friends have tasted the American Fruit Cake they will be asking you for the recipe. This cake is lovely just on its own with a cup of tea or it is even better with a dab of cream. My dear old mother used to like the American Fruit Cake with a little bit of butter spread on it. But what ever way you have it I'm sure you will enjoy the cake.

American Fruit Cake Ingredients

6 oz mixed peel
8 oz dates
8 oz seeded raisins
1/4 cup orange juice
4 oz walnuts
1 tsp salt
8 oz glazed cherries
4 oz candied pineapple
1 3/4 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 lb butter
1/2 tsp nutmeg
3 Tbs sugar
1/2 cup honey
5 eggs
1 tsp allspice
1/2 tsp ground cloves

American Fruit Cake Method

On a cutting board chop up the raisins, dates and nuts. Chop the pineapple into bite size pieces and cut the cherries into quarters. Put them in a bowl and combine them together, add 1/4 cup of the flour over the mixture. Beat the sugar and butter together and mix to a cream and then add the honey. Add the eggs one at a time making sure you beat the mixture well after each egg you add. Add to this mixture the rest of the flour, spices, baking powder and the salt also mixing in the orange juice alternately and mix it well. Now add the fruit and mix it well again. Line an 8 inch cake tin with two thicknesses of white and two thicknesses of brown paper having the paper 1 inch above the rim of the tin. Place the American Fruit Cake in the cake tin and bake it in a slow oven 275 degrees for about 4 hours.

Enjoy your freshly made American Fruit Cake!