Frigidaire Fruit Cake Recipes

HOLIDAY FRUITCAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°. Combine fruit and nuts. In another bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Combine flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture and mix well. Pour over fruit and nuts; stir to coat. , Transfer to a greased and floured 10-in. tube pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 2 hours. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. Wrap tightly and store in a cool place. Bring to room temperature before serving; slice with a serrated knife.

FRIGIDAIRE FRUIT CAKE

Steps:

• Put vanilla wafers into food processor.
• Process on low until wafers are course crumbles.
• Pour vanilla wafer crumbles into a large bowl for mixing.
• Add the cherries and mix gently.
• Add coconut, raisins, and pecans.
• Gently stir the dry mixture until mixed and all sticky ingredients are coated with dry crumbles.
• In double boiler melt the marshmallows by stirring constantly.
• Add the sweetened condensed milk.
• Stir constantly.
• Heat until melted and smooth.
• Do not boil or get too hot. Just melt until smooth.
• Quickly mix the melted mixture to the dry mixture.
• As is cools begin to form into shape.
• Butter hands to handle and keep from sticking.
• Line a bowl with wax paper.
• Press butter greased mixture into bowl to shape and get air out.
• Don't press to hard.
• Refrigerate and when cold can be sliced into pieces.

JAPANESE FRUIT CAKE

Steps:

• --DARK LAYERS--.
• Mix together all ingredients except raisins, orange peel and nuts. Grind these or chop fine and mix with the cake mixture. Bake in 9" cake pans until done at 350 degrees. --.
• --WHITE LAYERS--.
• Mix and bake in layers, 9" pans at 350 degrees until done. --.
• --FILLING--.
• Mix ingredients together and cook about 20 minutes, stirring constantly, let cool a little and spread between layers of cooled cake layers.
• This recipe makes 2 cakes. Split each cake into half so that you have 2 layers each of light and dark cakes. Alternate layers when putting fruitcake together so that you have 1 dark, 1 white, 1 dark, 1 white layer.

BOILED FRUIT CAKE

Steps:

• Place dried fruit, mixed peel, cherries, water, brandy, sugar and butter in pan.
• Heat gently, bring the boil and simmer for 5 minutes.
• Take of heat and add the bicarb soda, stirring through, mixture will foam up a bit. Leave until cold.
• Sift flours and spices.
• Mix the eggs through the fruit mixture, then combine with dry ingredient.
• Pour into a lined 18cm square cake pan or 18cm round cake pan.
• Wet your hand and flatten top of cake.
• Bake at 150C for 1 hour.
• Cool in pan covered with a tea towel.

LAFRANCE FLOUR COLONIAL FRUIT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Sift and measure flour. Then sift four times. Wash currants and raisins and dry on clean cloth. Blanch almonds, peel, dry on clean cloth and chop. Slightly chop all other fruits and nuts, then pour all these ingredients onto a well-floured boare and sprinkle the spices over them. Wash your hands, roll them around on floured board until all are evenly coated in flour. Cream sugar and butter, then add beaten eggs and beat until mixture is smooth. Dissolve baking soda in coffee and blend with molasses; add to creamed mixture and beat well. Add fruits, salt, lemon and orange juice and rind. Cut in flour, pour into large oilpaper-lined (parchment paper) pan. Bake in a 300 degree oven for 3 hours.

REFRIGERATOR FRUITCAKE

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients and mix well.
• Pack into a loaf pan lined with waxed paper.
• Cover pan tightly with plastic wrap.
• Can be stored in refrigerator for several weeks.