Arkansas Christmas Cake
From cuzpat 15 years ago
- 120 minutes to make
- Serves 6
Saw this online!! taste so good in my mind!
Ingredients
- 1 cup dried figs, quartered shopping list
- 1 cup golden raisins shopping list
- 2 cups dark raisins shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups dried, pitted fruit (apples, peaches, pears or apricots), chopped shopping list
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg shopping list
- 1 tablespoon baking powder shopping list
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon shopping list
- 1 teaspoon baking soda shopping list
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt shopping list
- 3 cups flour shopping list
- 4 eggs shopping list
- 1 cup bourbon shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups molasses (sorghum preferred) shopping list
- 1 cup butter shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups dried chopped persimmons (chopped dates may be substituted, thank goodness) shopping list
- 2 cups coarsely chopped walnuts shopping list
- 1/2 cup candied orange peel shopping list
- 1/2 cup candied ginger shopping list
How to make it
- Cream butter, adding sorghum slowly until well-blended. Add eggs, one at a time, beating thoroughly. Add bourbon, beating well.
- Combine 2 1/2 cups flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and nutmeg. Blend with butter mixture.
- Dredge fruits in remaining 1/2 cup flour. Combine fruits with nuts, orange peel and ginger. Stir into other ingredients.
- Generously butter two 9×5-inch loaf pans and line each with a double thickness of well-buttered wax paper. Pour batter into pans.
- Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour. Reduce heat to 300 degrees and cover pans securely with aluminum foil. Bake 1 hour more. Remove from oven. Remove from pans when cool. Wrap in bourbon-soaked cloth and store in aluminum foil or close-fitting tin box to ripen at least one week.
- Makes 2 cakes.
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This sounds wonderful! Thanks.
maureenlaw
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I be right over for this
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Love this recipes!!! five forky
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