Banana Fruit Cake

Title:
Banana Fruit Cake

Yield:
12 Servings

Categories:
Cakes,
Fruits,
Nuts,
Vegetarian




Ingredients:





   3/4 c  Butter


     2 c  Brown sugar


     4    Eggs


 2 1/2 c  All-purpose flour


     1 c  Walnuts; chopped


     3 c  Candied fruit


     2 c  Dates; chopped


     1 tb Orange juice


     1 ts Orange rind; grated


   1/2 ts Orange extract


     1 ts Baking powder


     1 ts Baking soda


     1 ts Salt


   1/4 ts Ground nutmeg


   1/4 ts Ground cloves


     1 ts Ground cinnamon


 1 1/2 c  Mashed bananas






 Recipe by: Rose Murray, The Christmas Cookbook Great Canadian Prepare two
2


 Litre (9" x 5") loaf pans. Preheat oven to 300 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.  (A food processor will tend to liquefy the


 bananas and this will change the texture of the cake.) 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. Yields


 about 5 pounds of cake.


 


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