Holiday Pecan Fruit Cake – Cooking From Scratch – Holiday Cake Recipes


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  1. Katsem
    Katsem says:

    I like your idea of baking them in decorative tins. I never would have thought those were oven proof. Your recipe looks very good, but we like glacéd cherries, golden raisins and candied pineapple only for the fruity part, no citron. We like but alcohol flavoring, even if it’s only from extract.

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  2. Wayne
    Wayne says:

    I have my mother fruitcake recipe. She quit making it when they changed the fruit for fruitcake. I use my own candied citrus peels, candied pineapple and merichino cherries. Where did you get your mixed fruits? I only use cinnamon and ginger in my fruitcake

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  3. Susan Habib
    Susan Habib says:

    My Mum made the most delicious fruit cales and she taught me from an early age. My favourite (but most time consuming) are the ones where the fruit is mixed eith brandy or rum and left to soak for about a month before the cake is made. The fruit mixture uses dultanas, currants, raisins, dates (without that sugary coating), dried apricots, glace cherries, mixed peel, dried figs if liked. The cake is made with butter, dark brown sugar, allspice, nutmeg, cinnamon, molasses, flour and the soaked fruits are added to the mix – it's a labour of love mixing it together! It goes into a large cake tin snd baked in a slow oven for about three and a half hours. When cojed, a snall amount of brandy, rum or sherry is poured over the top if the cake every day or so (maybe half a dozen times) and then the cake can be stored till Christmas. It can be made months ahead and is very, very moist and rich. A quicker and easier version is a boiled fruit cake – the fruit, butter, sugar and alcohol or water is put into a large saucepan and boiled till the sugar has dissolved. Its then left to col completely before the flour, eggs and spices are added, along with dome slivered slmonds or roughly choped walnuts (these also go in the other cake too), before baking. This type foesnt last ad long as the first type, but is delicious. Again, alcohol is drizzled over the top fir a few days and its best to leave it for at least a week before cutting. These are both served in small slices ss they are very rich (except my don cuts great doorsteps because he loves fruitcake and traditional Christmss pudding – and fruit mince tarts …😂). Im Australian but Mum's and Dad's families migrated here from England, do we prefer Emglish fruit cakes etc.

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  4. Holley Lewis
    Holley Lewis says:

    I did your fruit cake for Christmas and it was the best. I've made four since, all were eaten up quickly.
    Loved it. Thank you. Want to know what type of mixer is this you are using? Love you channel.

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  5. kay Hight
    kay Hight says:

    Really, really and really GOOD! 😄 Adding this cake to our holiday cooking gifts!

    ( But of course, I'll have to make it several times before then – practice makes perfect!) 😜

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  6. Patsy Patrick
    Patsy Patrick says:

    Oh yes I love fruit
    cake!Second time to watch.Oh,you home is so pretty,with
    all the Christmas decorations .Especially love the front living room.
    So glad we have received Healing.At the Cross,At the Cross,where I 1st saw the light and the Burdens of our Heart rolled away,It was there by night I received my Sight,and now we are Happyall the Day!!2
    HAPPY 2023,FOREVER YOUNG,IN JESUS NAME.3🍞🥂🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

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  7. Pam Ragan
    Pam Ragan says:

    Sounds absolutely delicious. I’ve only made one before for my dad and I bet it weighed every bit of 20 pounds. I don’t know what I did wrong. Lol. But I love fruit cake.

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  8. Jared-91
    Jared-91 says:

    People look at me funny when I tell them fruitcake is my favorite kind of cake. It's true. I'd happily accept one as my birthday cake. We used to make our own. We also added red wine to the batter. Then soak it in brandy or rum for about a week.

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  9. Robin Gastonia
    Robin Gastonia says:

    I have my mother's recipe that she used to make. It is handwritten on a piece of ledger paper. LOL I love fruit cake. I can remember my job growing up was cutting up all the candied fruit. I always wanted to cut it right after it was made but we always had to wait till Christmas. I bought me a small Claxton at Walmart, and ate at bite at a time. It was not as good as my mothers but it was really good. I can not remember if mother used brandy or whisky, and my mother did not drink at all. It is still hard at the holidays without my mother. She used to always make a fresh coconut cake and I honor her and in memory, I always make a fresh coconut cake.

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