Blonde Fruitcake Recipes

HOLIDAY FRUITCAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°. Combine fruit and nuts. In another bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Combine flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture and mix well. Pour over fruit and nuts; stir to coat. , Transfer to a greased and floured 10-in. tube pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 2 hours. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. Wrap tightly and store in a cool place. Bring to room temperature before serving; slice with a serrated knife.

GOLDEN FRUITCAKE

Steps:

• Place raisins in a large bowl; cover with boiling water and let stand for 5 minutes. Drain well and set aside. , In another large bowl, cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, cream of tartar, salt and baking soda; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk. Stir in the walnuts, pineapple, cherries, coconut and raisins. , Spoon into nine greased 5-3/4x3x2-in. loaf pans. Bake at 300° for 65-75 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.

FRUITCAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 225 degrees F (110 degrees C). Grease and flour a tube pan.
• In a large bowl, combine sugar, flour, soda, spices, eggs, lemon rind, vanilla, 1/2 cup brandy, fruit, nuts, and melted butter or margarine. Mix thoroughly. Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake for 1 hour, or until a tester inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.
• Wrap cooled cake in foil. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons brandy over the cake everyday for 2 weeks.

FRUITCAKE

Steps:

• Stir together dried fruit, candied ginger, peel, and 1/2 cup liqueur. Let stand at room temperature 3 hours or overnight.
• Cut parchment paper to line the bottom of a 7-by-3-inch or 9-by-2-inch round cake pan. Coat pan with cooking spray; line with parchment. Spray lining. Flour pan; tap out excess.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Whisk together flour, baking powder, spices, and salt in a medium bowl; set aside. Put butter and sugars in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle; mix on medium speed until smooth. Mix in eggs (1 at a time), molasses, and vanilla. Gradually add flour mixture; mix until smooth. Mix in fruit, nuts, and coconut.
• Pour batter into pan. Bake until a cake tester comes out clean, about 2 1/2 hours for 9-inch cake or 2 3/4 hours for 7-inch cake. If desired, brush with up to 1/2 cup liqueur. Unmold; let cool.

BLONDE FRUITCAKE RECIPE RECIPE

Steps:

• PREP 1 hr COOK 1.5 hrs READY IN 3 hrs Mix fruit and nuts in a large bowl. Prepare pan(s): for loaf pans, cut a strip of paper (waxed or parchment) or foil as wide as the pan is long, and long enough to cover bottom and sides and come a little above the sides of the pan. This makes it easy to remove the heavy, breakable cake from the pan. Oil or butter the pan, press the paper or foil firmly into the pan, and oil it also. For a tube pan, cut a circle to fit bottom with a cut-out for the tube. If pan is not a spring-form, cut a strip to line the side as well. Oil as for loaf pan. Preheat oven to 300° F. Separate eggs. In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in egg yolks, one at a time. Mix in orange juice and vanilla. Mix together flour,salt, baking powder and nutmeg. Add, in 3 batches, to egg mixture, stirring each addition in well. Beat egg whites to firm peaks and fold gently into batter. Pour batter over fruit and nut mixture and mix gently but thoroughly, using your hands, if necessary. Divide batter evenly into prepared pans, pressing down into corners. Dip fingertips in water and smooth tops, pushing large chunks down into batter. Bake 60 - 75 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. If tops seem to be getting too dark towards the end of the baking time, cover loosely with foil. Cool in the pan for 20 - 30 minutes, then remove, carefully, to a rack to cool completely. Cake can be served fresh, or kept, wrapped and refrigerated, for weeks. (If desired, drizzle top with several tablespoons of brandy or rum, wrap, and allow to age for a week in a cool place).

CANDIED HOLIDAY FRUITCAKE

Steps:

• Position rack in lowest third of oven and preheat to 250°F. Grease and flour 12-cup bundt pan or tube cake pan. In large bowl, mix pecans and fruits with 3 tablespoon flour. In another large bowl, cream butter with sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs 1 at a time. Stir in vanilla and lemon extract. Sift 1 3/4 cups flour with baking powder and salt. Add dry ingredients to batter; stir until blended. Mix fruit mixture into batter.
• Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake until golden brown and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 2 1/2 hours. Cool in pan on rack 15 minutes. Turn out onto rack and cool. (Can be prepared 2 weeks ahead; wrap in foil and store at room temperature.) Dust with powdered sugar.