Ava's Not Your Usual Nutty Fruit Cake
Recipe: #2816
November 20, 2011
"My friend Faye shared this recipe with me... "Here is my mother's recipe for fruit cake that we have been making for years at Thanksgiving. She put this recipe together because she couldn't find one that had enough nuts in it to suit her. It does have a lot and it is rich, but oh so good". "
Original is 7 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (226.9 g)
- Calories 709.8
- Total Fat - 45.1 g
- Saturated Fat - 9.6 g
- Cholesterol - 148.4 mg
- Sodium - 1379.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 56.4 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2.2 g
- Sugars - 37.2 g
- Protein - 20.9 g
- Calcium - 117.5 mg
- Iron - 3 mg
- Vitamin C - 13.9 mg
- Thiamin - 0.6 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream sugar, butter and egg yolks.
Step 2
Add vanilla.
Step 3
Sift flour over nuts.
Step 4
Mix all ingredients together, until all is moistened well. Don't overmix.
Step 5
Fold in egg whites last.
Step 6
Bake in a greased loaf pan, for 1 hour 10 minutes.
Step 7
Cool.
Tips
No special items needed.