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Easy Christmas Fruit Cake

Easy Christmas Fruit Cake — a cake recipe, 11 ingredients.

Cake

contains glutencontains dairycontains eggscontains nuts

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Ingredients

Units: US Metric
Scale: ½× – 4× with Plus →
  • 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
Make it lactose-friendly
  • 1 cup (240 g) butter (softened) → plant butter, ghee (mostly lactose-free), or olive oil
  • 1 packet (250 g) cream cheese → lactose-free cream cheese

Swaps are suggestions, not medical advice. Check labels if lactose is a serious issue for you.

Steps

  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.

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Source

Wikibooks Cookbook — adapted under CC BY-SA 3.0