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Better-Than-Fruitcake Cookies Mostly fruit and nuts, these sweet and chewy clusters make excellent gifts, freeze well, can be shipped easily, and most importantly, live up to their name. —Lillian Charves, New Bern, North Carolina Better Than Fruitcake Cookies Better Than Fruitcake Cookies. Better-Than-Fruitcake Bark ~ nobody loves fruitcake, but every everybody flips for this chocolate bark loaded with dried fruits and nuts! Make this easy homemade candy your signature gift this holiday season!
Better Than Fruitcake! is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Better Than Fruitcake! is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have better than fruitcake! using 18 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Better Than Fruitcake!:
- Take 3 tbsp melted butter
- Prepare 3 tbsp sour cream
- Prepare 5 banana's semi soft but not mushy.
- Get 1 1/2 tbsp malibu rum
- Prepare 2 tsp marachino cherry juice
- Get 2 eggs
- Get 1/2 tsp lemon juice
- Make ready 1 cup peeled/cored diced apples
- Get 1/4 cup pineapple tidbits well drained
- Prepare 1/4 cup raisins
- Make ready 20 marachino cherries
- Prepare 1/4 cup dried cranberries or craisins
- Get 1/4 cup dried strawberries or firm fresh strawberries
- Prepare 1/4 cup walnut pieces or candied walnut pieces
- Make ready 1/4 cup cashew pieces or candied cashew pieces
- Make ready 2 cup flour
- Get 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- Make ready 1 cup sugar
Not a fruitcake, but a buttery almond pound cake with tons of brandy-soaked fruits, it is still can be made well in advance (about a week beforehand is good enough for me). Orange marmalade and Grand Marnier glaze keeps the cake moist and fragrant. Mostly fruit and nuts, these sweet and chewy clusters make excellent gifts, freeze well, can be shipped easily, and most importantly, live up to their name. —Lillian Charves, New Bern, North Carolina. So much better than the old-fashioned cake!
Steps to make Better Than Fruitcake!:
- preheat oven to 350°F
- place diced apples and lemon juice in a bowl. toss to coat. set aside.
- cut pinapple tid bits into 4 pieces and cut cherries into 4 pieces. set aside.
- in a bowl places peeled whole banana's, rum, eggs, sugar, cherry juice, butter and sour cream.
- blend with hand mixer until blended but still chunky.
- sift together flour and baking soda. mix flour mix into banana mix by hand using a spoon.
- fold in apples.
- place all nuts and all remaining fruits into banana mix. and gently fold in.
- grease 2 bread loaf pans very well.
- fill said loaf pans halfway with mix evenly.
- bake on middle oven rack for 1 hour or until thoughrally cooked.. toothpick inserted into center should come out clean.. top should browned.
- cool on wire rack.
- slice and serve!
- enjoy!
- makes 2 loafs..
- hint( fruit measurements should be slightly heaping.
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