Recipe: Fruitcake

A couple of you asked for the recipe of the fruitcake you all sampled yesterday, so here it is! I think it came from an issue of Clean Eating magazine, but I'm not sure. Note: the fruit has to marinate in the liqueur for a day before you can begin baking.

Ingredients:

Fruit:
1 cup unsweetened dried cranberries
1 cup unsweetened dried apricots, chopped
1/2 cup crystallized (candied) ginger, chopped
1/2 cup liqueur of choice (I used Southern Comfort this time; I've also used Kahlua.)

1/4 cup flour

Dry Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups flour
2 t baking powder
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon allspice

Wet Ingredients:
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla

1. Combine fruit and alcohol. Let stand 1 day, stirring occasionally

2. Grease and flour a loaf pan. Preheat oven to 250F.

3. Sprinkle 1/4 cup flour into the fruit mix, and stir.

4. In smallish bowl, whisk dry ingredients together.

5. In larger bowl, mix oil and sugar, then add the rest of wet ingredients.

6. Add dry ingredients to wet. Add fruit. Stir. Will be very heavy.

7. Glop into pan. Smooth the top. Cover with tin foil.

8. Place 9 x 13 pan, 2/3 full of water, on lower rack.

9. Put loaf on middle rack. Bake 2 1/2 hours.

Yum!