Texas Holiday Fruit Cake Food

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.

TEXAS HOLIDAY FRUIT CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Before you start, sample the whiskey to check for qyality. Good isn't it? Now go ahead
• 2. Select a large mixing bowl , neasurimg cups, etc. Check the wiskey again, as it must be just right. To be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup into a glass and drink it as fast as you can. Repeat.....
• 3. With an electic mixer beat 1 cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl.
• 4. Add one cup of thugar and beat again.
• 5. Meanwhile make sure the wiskey is of the finest quality.
• 6. Cry another tup. Open second quart if netathry.
• 7. Add 2 large effs, 2 cups fried druit, and beat.
• 8. If druit gets stuck in beaters, just pry loose with a drewscriver.
• 9. Sample the wiskey again to check for tonscisiticy.(Carol by the way is a RN).
• 10. next sift 2 cups of salt, or anything else, it really doesn't matter.
• 11. Sample the viskey once again.
• 12. Sift 1/2 pint of lemon juice, fold in chopped brown thugar,or whatever color you can find, and mix well.
• 13. Grease roven and turn cake pan to 350 degreefs.
• 14. Now pour the wnole mess in the roven and ake.
• 15. Check the viskey one last tine and bo to ged.
• 16. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!!!!!!

HOLIDAY FRUITCAKE (FRUIT CAKE)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Grease and flour a 10-inch bundt pan.
• Combine flour and baking soda; set aside.
• In a large bowl combine mincemeat and sweetened condensed milk. Stir in beaten eggs then the fruit and walnuts. Add the flour/baking soda mixture and stir until combined.
• Spoon batter into the prepared bundt pan and bake approximately 1 hour 20 minutes or until test in middle of cake comes out clean. (I cook to 1 hour 10 minutes then start testing every 10 minutes until cake tests for doneness. If it's over baked it will be dry, otherwise the cake will come out perfectly moist. Be diligent with your testing.).
• Cool 15 minutes. Turn out of pan onto a wire rack. Cool completely. Cake may be cut into individual portions and wrapped in foil and frozen.
• To make in loaf pans, spoon 3/4 full. Bake 300 degrees for 1 hour or until test in middle of cake comes out clean.

TEXAS CANDY CAKE

Steps:

• Make two weeks prior to serving.
• Preheat oven to 250 degrees F. Grease and flour 10 inch bundt pan or tubed pan with removable bottom.
• Combine cherries, pineapple and dates in large bowl. Sprinkle with flour; toss to coat well.
• Add pecans and coconut; toss to mix.
• Add milk and mix well.
• Spoon into prepared pan, smooth out top.
• Bake for 1-1/2 hours. Cool in pan on rack. Remove from pan and wrap tightly in foil or place in an air-tight container. Refrigerate for at least 2 weeks to mellow flavors.
• Keep in an air-tight container in the refrigerator for up to a month.

SPECIAL HOLIDAY FRUITCAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°. Grease well and flour two 8x4-in. loaf pans. In a large bowl, combine dates, pineapple, cherries and nuts. In a small bowl, whisk flour, sugar, baking powder and salt; stir into fruit mixture until well coated., In a small bowl, whisk egg yolks until slightly thickened. In another bowl, beat egg whites and vanilla until stiff peaks form. With a spatula, stir a fourth of the egg whites into egg yolk mixture until no white streaks remain. Fold in remaining egg whites until combined. Add to fruit mixture; gently fold until blended. Pour into prepared pans. , Bake 1 to 1-1/2 hours or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pans 20 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely. Wrap tightly and store in a cool, dry place. Using a serrated knife, cut into slices.