Fruit and Pecan Cake
This is a wonderful fruit cake that includes glace cherries, pineapple, sultanas and pecans. Once baked it is left to mature with slices of fresh apple.
Ingredients
Serves: 14
- 375g butter
- 2 cups (220g) white sugar
- 6 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla essence
- 4 cups (500g) plain flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 500g glace cherries
- 500g chopped pecans
- 500g glace pineapple
- 1 1/2 cups sultanas
- 1 apple, peeled, cored and sliced
Directions
Preparation:20min ›
Cook:3hours ›
Extra time:3days resting ›
Ready in:3days3hours20min
- Preheat oven to 120 degrees C. Grease one 25cm ring tin. Line the bottom of the tin with baking paper and dust with flour.
- Cream the butter together with the white sugar. Add eggs one at a time mixing well after each one. Mix in the vanilla essence.
- Stir in 3 cups of the flour, baking powder and salt then blend well.
- Toss glace cherries, chopped pecans, pineapple and sultanas with the remaining 1 cup flour. Stir fruit and nut mixture into the batter and pour into prepared tin.
- Bake at 120 degrees C for 3 hours. Let cake cool for 20 minutes before removing from tin.
- After cake is cold cut a piece of baking paper to fit the top of the cake. Put the apple slices on top of the baking paper and put cake into a closed container.
- Store cake in a cool dry area for about 3 days or until the cake takes up the juice from the apple slices. Remove apple slices and waxed paper then serve.
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I have made this for the last two years for Christmas and definetely plan on making it again this year. I would consider it a fruitcake; people who are not sure they like fruitcake love this. I leave the apple on 5-10 days, making sure it's sitting in a nice cool place, it just makes it moister and tastier........Here it is December 2011 and I must add to my review. This cake is so good, I have people that get me to bake it for them for Christmas each year. I have already baked 2 in November and I have 3 more to bake. It's like Lay's potato chips, you can't take just one bite. - 09 Oct 2008 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
I made this cake for Christmas. My family said it was the best one I'd ever made. The only change I made was the 1lb pineapple was reduced to add some fruit peel (orange & lemon). Very good cake! - 28 Dec 2004 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
This cake has been passed down from my Mother to me and my sisters, now my daughters. Fruity and moist fruit cake, I use marichino cherries cut up and drained, crushed pineapple drained. instead of candied fruit. we bake them in medium sized loaf pans for gifts for Christmas. - 16 Dec 2014 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)