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Easy Christmas Fruit Cake

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Drink, Holiday, Baked

Tags: baking, christmas, easy, family heritage, recipes for cake, recipes using baking powder, recipes using butter, recipes using egg, recipes using raisin, recipes with metric units, recipes without cooking time, recipes without servings

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3AEasy_Christmas_Fruit_Cake)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3AEasy%20Christmas%20Fruit%20Cake&oldid=4516907

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 1½ cup (360 g) raisins
  • ¼ cup (60 ml) orange juice
  • 1 cup (240 g) butter (softened)
  • 1 packet (250 g) cream cheese
  • 1½ cups (360 g) brown sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 4 teaspoons grated orange zest
  • 1 cups (140 g) all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon nutmeg

Directions

  1. In a saucepan on low heat warm raisins and orange juice until liquid is absorbed, then set aside.
  2. In large bowl, beat butter cream cheese with sugar until fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time, then stir in orange zest. Stir again.
  3. In a separate bowl, mix flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg. Stir into batter, following with the raisin mixture.
  4. Spoon batter into a greased and floured 9-inch tube pan or bundt pan.
  5. Bake in 300°F (~160°C) oven for about 80 minutes. Check it at 60 minutes with a cake tester or skewer.
  6. Let cool in pan for 5 minutes, then turn onto a rack to cool completely.