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Banana Fruit Cake
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ready in:
2-5 hrs
2-5 hrs
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ingredients
3/4 cup butter
2 cups brown sugar
4 eggs
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup walnuts, chopped
3 cups candied fruit
1 cup pineapple
2 cups dates, chopped
1 tablespoon orange juice
1 teaspoon orange rind, grated
1/2 teaspoon orange extract
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 1/2 cup mashed bananas
directions
Prepare loaf pans (9 x 5-inch) and preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
In a large bowl, combine the fruit, dates, pineapple and walnuts. Dredge them with 1/4 cup of the flour.
Sift the remaining flour together with the baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Set aside.
Cream the butter, add the sugar and beat until the mixture is light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time. Beat in the orange rind, orange juice and orange extract. Mash the bananas with a fork.
Alternately stir the bananas and the flour mixture into the creamed mixture. Stir in the floured fruit and nuts.
Turn into the prepared pans and bake for 2 hours and 15 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the middle of each cake comes out clean.
Cool in the pans for 20 minutes, then turn out onto racks.
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reviews & comments
January 5, 2009
Me again. I answered my own question by emailing Rose Murray, who graciously replied that the list of ingredients should include 1/2 cup candied pineapple. I made this cake in early Dec., let it age 2 weeks in a Grand Marnier-soaked cloth, and it is SCRUMPTIOUS!!!! Everyone who's been privileged to taste a slice (I'm extremely stingy with it) has been bowled over. It has converted two lifelong fruitcake-loathers! I made a couple of very minor tweaks, which I'll be glad to share if anyone asks.
Hi. I think this is Rose Murphy's recipe from "The Christmas Cookbook". I find it numerous places on the web, but almost always with this same problem: there is no mention of pineapple in the list of ingredients, yet in the instructions you say to dredge "fruit, dates, pineapple, walnuts" in flour. I finally found a website that has "1 cup pineapple" listed in the ingredients. I'm wondering if someone has decided the cake is better w/o the pineapple, or just made a mistake. If there's supposed to be pineapple, what kind: candied, canned--tidbits, chunks? Help! I have all the ingredients and want to make the recipe ASAP. Best regards, Curious