Christmas Fruit Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 lb raisins (seedless)
• 1 cup blanched almond
• 1 cup candied red cherries
• 1 cup candied green cherries
• 1 cup candied pineapple
• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 stir some flour into fruit mixture so it doesn't stick together. i use a little (like a tablespoon from the 2 1/4 cups for the cake).
• 2 cream the butter, sugar and eggs.
• 3 mix together the dry ingredients and add to the creamed ingredients.
• 4 stir in the fruit and nuts (i usually omit the nuts) and add more fruit to make up the volume.
• 5 bake in a 300of oven for an hour, but check the cake for doneness with a wooden tooth pick to make sure it is cooked.
• 6 my mother's only directions are: bake at 300of for a little longer than an hour and mix together like a cake.