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Ava's Not Your Usual Nutty Fruit Cake

Here's how you make Ava's Not Your Usual Nutty Fruit Cake
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  • Servings: 7
  • Prep: 15m
  • Cook: 70m
    • The following recipe serves 7 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 4 eggs, whites and yolks separated
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 quart pecans or walnuts or mixed
  • 1 cup self-rising flour, heaping
  • 1 pound dates, chopped
  • 1 (6 ounce) bottle Marachino cherries
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • 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.

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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