White Fruit Cake
I make half the recipe, which perfectly fills my two glass fruitcake pans (lined on the bottom with parchment paper).
Ingredients
- 1 pound whole pecans
- 1 pound red crystallized cherries
- 1 pound green crystallized cherries
- 1½ pounds natural crystallized pineapple
- 10 eggs
- 650g (5 cups) flour
- 2 cups butter
- 400g (2 cups) sugar
- 1 tablespoon lemon extract
- 1 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Butter five 3-pound foil pans and line bottom with parchment paper. Dredge pecans, cherries and pineapple in ½ cup of flour.
- Cream butter in electric mixer, add sugar gradually and mix until smooth. Add lemon extract and eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Blend in remaining flour and salt. Add nuts and fruit and mix until all are moistened.
- Pour cake into the lined pans and bake at 250°F for 2½ hours or until done. Let cake cool on wire rack for 30 minutes. Remove from pan, peel off parchment paper carefully and finish cooling on rack.
Notes
In 2018-2021, I baked the fruitcakes for 2 hours, 30 minutes. In 2022, I tried 2 hours, 15 minutes.