Banana fruit cake Ingredients: 3/4c Butter 2c Brown sugar 4 Eggs 2 1/2c All-purpose flour 1cWalnuts; chopped 3c Candied fruit 2c Dates; chopped 1tb Orange juice 1ts Orange rind; grated 1/2tsOrange extract 1ts Baking powder 1tsBaking soda 1ts Salt 1/4ts Ground nutmeg 1/4ts Ground cloves 1ts Ground cinnamon 1 1/2c Mashed bananas two 2 Litre (9" x 5") loaf pans.
Preheat oven to 300 F. In a large bowl combine the fruit, dates, pineapple & walnuts. Dredge them with 1/4 cup of the flour. Sift the remaining flour together with the baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg & cloves. Set aside. Cream the butter, add the sugar & beat until the mixture is light & fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time. Beat in the orange rind, orange juice & orange extract. Mash the bananas with a fork. (A food processor will tend to liquefy the bananas & this will change the texture of the cake.) Alternately stir the bananas & the flour mixture into the creamed mixture. Stir in the floured fruit & nuts. Turn into the prepared pans & bake for 2 hours & 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. Yields about 5 pounds of cake. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Access the Recipes And More list archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/recipesandmore%40googlegroups.com/ Visit the group home page at: http://groups.google.com/group/RecipesAndMore -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
