Light Fruit Cake
Recipe: #16402
December 19, 2014
Categories: Desserts, Cakes, Tube/Bundt, Scandinavian, Christmas, Oven Bake, Vegetarian, Flour, Sugar, Kosher Dairy, more
"We make this fruit cake for Christmas. It is lighter than most fruitcakes and we enjoy it. Recipe source: The Finnish Cookbook"
Original is 10 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (138.5 g)
- Calories 419.6
- Total Fat - 25.1 g
- Saturated Fat - 12.9 g
- Cholesterol - 153 mg
- Sodium - 404.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 42.7 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.1 g
- Sugars - 22.1 g
- Protein - 7.2 g
- Calcium - 99.7 mg
- Iron - 1.1 mg
- Vitamin C - 9 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
In a large bowl cream the butter with the sugar until light. Add eggs, beating until light and thick.
Step 2
In a separate bowl sift together the dry ingredients (flour - salt).
Step 3
Put nuts and fruit in a small bowl and then sift about 2 tablespoons of the flour mixture over the dried fruit and nuts; toss and set aside.
Step 4
Sift the remaining flour mixture over the butter/sugar mixture and blend until the batter is smooth.
Step 5
Fold fruit/nuts into the batter.
Step 6
Turn the batter into 2 well buttered and floured loaf pans (3 x 8 inch) or into 1 tube pan.
Step 7
Bake in a 350 degree F. oven for 1 hour or until cake tests done and begins to shrink form the sides of the pan.
Tips
No special items needed.
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