Fruit Cake
 

I personally LOVE a good fruit cake .I know a lot of you may not but here's my recipe . 2 boxes banana nut bread mix ,4 eggs,2 cups water ,1/2 cup oil , Mix all those together ,add 1 small tub each of candied pineapple , green cherries , red cherries ,& mixed candied fruit ,add 2 cups chopped walnuts ,put into paper lined over sized muffin tins filling about 1/2 inch from the top . Bake at 375 degrees for about 20-25 minutes or until tooth pick comes out clean. Cool on rack until room temperature . I wrap mine in plastic wrap , twist the bottom closed & put a piece of tape across the bottom to keep the plastic air tight . Throw into gallon bags & freeze .This makes about 20 muffins . Thaw out when you want one & tastes like it was just baked . I just made mine up today for Thanksgiving & tomorrow I will do the fudges ,wrap in plastic , then wrap in foil , another Thanksgiving dessert done !

Sounds good. I used to get, as I know others did, a fruit cake every Christmas. One year my mother got one to give me. I was wanting a snack and she had just gotten a first microwave. I sliced a some pieces for me and the boys and nuked them. Put a little whipped cream on it and it was great. That cake was gone by the end of the week. Fastest any fruit cake went in our family. I still like to get one every once in awhile but now I cut into individual servings and store in a freezer box.

Thanks for your recipe Krissy. Fruitcake reminds me of my Grandma Rose who used to always send us fruitcake for Christmas. It's a great idea to make them in oversized muffin pans for individual gifts.

I'm a big fan of fruitcake thanks.........

I put my fruit to soak in bourbon the day after Halloween--three weeks later I bake the cakes and allow them to age. Goodness! It's almost that time!

Love fruit cake!

We made a lot of fruit cake when I was young I love it.....my mom would bake it early and fall and freeze some for gifts one she wrap it in cheese cloth keep it in the cool pantry and pour a shot of burbon over it about once a week till Christmas......I almost remember the first Christmas I got to have some of that one.......

I love a good homemade fruit cake.

I love it too! Homemade is the best..not the junk with all of the preservatives they try to pass off as "fruitcake". It gives fruitcake a bad name.

In the years that I dont make mine from scratch, i order one from the Monks in Ava, Missouri. They have a website. Theirs taste like mine! I bought the Harry & David Dark last year, it was good too. It takes up an 8-10 hour day to make them.they bake for hours in a 200 degree oven because of the density. One reason that I don't bake them every year...the time! But oh so good.

Sandy

My mom baked two batches each year, one large batch of drk. and one batch of light. After baking, they were cooled, wrapped in muslin dish towels and placed in tins. These were made in early fall. Then every week or so, they were sprinkled with wine. I think she used the clothes sprinkler head that usually lived on an old ketchup bottle. By Christmas time, they were moist and well aged and yummy. I have never understood the anti-fruitcake campaign every year during the holidays. Makes me sick to see Fruitcake tosses and the like. They cost a fortune to make, only to be thrown through the air?

My mom made them until a few years ago. I'd let mine sit in the fridge until Easter...it was like eating candy! Tessagin putting it in the microwave then adding whipped cream sounds yummy! Never thought of that.
Thanks for this recipe. It's way different than Mom's, but just the thought of fruit cake is making my mouth water!

This sounds yummy! I'll have to try this out. My Mom makes some fruit cake cookies, but it's been years since I had a good fruit cake.

After reading all the posts, I am so pleased to know that other like fruitcake! I always order mine from Collin Street Bakery in Corsicana, Texas. They come in a tin that I keep in the freezer and take out one small slice at a time for comfort food! froggyintexas

This week I will make my fruit cake for......next winter.
I age mine for a year after soaking it a few time in rum. Next week, after all the turkey, apple pie and pumpkin pies are gone I will break out last year's cake. I make mine directly into those decorative cookie tins, lined with parchment. They are cooked at such a low temp the cookie tins are fine. Storage is great and instant gifts are in cold storage.

I love fruitcake, too, as does my family. But I have learned not to give it to others as it seems most people hate it. To expensive and time consuming to make to risk having it trashed.

Yeah, they have to be fruitcake worthy! LOL! My mom likes it, I've eaten some, but not my favorite. She used to make fruitcake cookies, and I loved them though! They certainly are expensive to make, everything is these days!

I only made fruitcake ONCE. It is time consuming and expensive, but well worth it - you ladies are right - commercial stuff just ain't the same! Thanks for posting - it's a great reminder that Thanksgiving and Christmas will be here before we know it.

:p what a great idea -- I never thought of using the basic banana nut bread recipe and adding the fruit/nuts -- thank you for a good idea to try!!

I too love fruitcake recipe sounds yummy

Got to try the banana mix as base......

I too soak my candied fruit in bourbon or brandy. This, of course, is done weeks in advance. Now is also a good time to buy the candied fruit for use on my Easter Bread although I don't soak it but just store it in the fridge. It's not so easy to get the candied fruit in the Spring. After baking the fruitcake I let it soak again in bourbon until it's just right. I like to add lots of walnuts, almonds and pecans. Not sure if that's traditional but I get no complaints.

My mother & father loved fruit cake - I never cared for it but liked to help make it. We used it for the groom's cake when I got married in 1973. My friend's daughter married a young man from England she made the fruit cake for the groom's cake because they got married in the summer and no one had fruit cakes that time of year. She had never heard of it before - and when I got married you were supposed to take it home put it under your pillow. No one I know has done it in years.

We enjoy fruitcake and make several batches every year. My grandmother's recipe. She was not a drinker but her recipe called for wine ... Made it several years with just fruit juice but have since discovered it is much better with wine. Won first prize in last year's fruitcake contest at the local bulk food store too!

I really like your fruit cake muffin recipe. I never thought of making them that way & I can see that they would be a great treat right out of the freezer.
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I don't make fruit cake. I have a very old recipe (my ex MIL) for rum cookies that seem like individual little fruit cakes. We have to make them every year.

Finished up my fruitcake today. A few days to sit, then they are ready.