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Holiday Cake (Spiced Fruitcake Loaf)

Holiday Cake (Spiced Fruitcake Loaf) — a cake recipe, 16 ingredients.

Cake

contains glutencontains dairycontains eggscontains nuts

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Ingredients

Units: US Metric
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  • 1 cup (240 ml) pitted dates
  • 2 cups (480 ml) maraschino cherries
  • ½ cup (120 ml) cherry juice
  • 1 cup (240 ml) butter
  • 3 cups (720 ml) brown sugar
  • 5 large eggs, separated
  • 1 cup (240 ml) milk
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 3 ½ cups (830 ml) sifted flour
  • 4 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp cloves
  • ½ tsp allspice
  • ½ tsp nutmeg
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 ½ cups (600 ml) chopped nuts
Make it lactose-friendly
  • 1 cup (240 ml) butter → plant butter, ghee (mostly lactose-free), or olive oil
  • 1 cup (240 ml) milk → lactose-free milk, oat milk, or almond milk

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

Steps

  1. Cut dates and cherries into small pieces and soak them in cherry juice overnight.
  2. Preheat oven to 250°F (120˚C).
  3. Cream butter, add half of the sugar. Beat until fluffy.
  4. In another bowl beat egg yolks until thick. Add remaining sugar.
  5. Combine the two mixtures and beat together.
  6. Sift together flour, salt, baking powder, and spices.
  7. Add dry ingredients and milk alternately to wet mixture, beating well after each addition.
  8. Fold in stiffly-beaten egg whites.
  9. Add in fruit and nuts dredged lightly with flour.
  10. Bake in lined loaf pans in slow oven for 3 hours.

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Source

Wikibooks Cookbook — adapted under CC BY-SA 3.0