German Fruit Cake

2 hours Prep: 15 minutes Cook: 2 hours

2566 calories per serving view nutrition facts

1 loaf cake suggest servings

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Ingredients

2	cups	sugar
1	cup	butter	or shortening*
2	large	eggs	slightly beaten
1 1/2	cups	applesauce	unsweetened, unseasoned
1	teaspoon	vanilla extract
4	cups	flour, all-purpose
1	teaspoon	baking soda
1	teaspoon	cinnamon
1/4	teaspoon	nutmeg
1/4	teaspoon	cloves
1/4	teaspoon	salt
1	pound	nut meats	fairly coarse
1	pound	raisins, seedless	white
2	pounds	gumdrops	cut evenly in pieces, no black and few green

Directions

* Reserve 1 tablespoon butter for frying nut meats.

Cream sugar and butter. Add slightly beaten eggs. Add applesause and vanilla Sift next 6 dry ingredients and reserve 1 cup.

Add dry ingredients (except for the 1 cup) and mix well.

Fry nut meats, heat well but do not brown, stir constantly. Flour nut meats, chopped gum drops and raisins in the reserved flour mixture. This is best done by placing all ingredients into a strong paper bag and shaking vigorously.

Mix with batter.

Line cake pans with waxed paper. Do not fill pans more than 2/3 full.

Bake in SLOW oven (275F) until done. Baking time depends upon size of cake. 8 1/2 X 4 inch load requires about 2 hrs.

DO NOT OVERBAKE. Cake should be fairly moist when done.

Remove waxed paper immediately after removing cake from oven after baking.

Immediately rewrap COMPLETELY in fresh waxed paper or cellophane. This will seal in moisture. (Paper in which cake is baked will become set on cake and difficult to remove later when cold).

*This recipe makes approximately one 8 1/2 X 4 inch loaf cake and one 8 inch square cake.

Cake should keep an indefinite length of time.

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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 741g

Amount per Serving

Calories 2566 18% of calories from fat

	% Daily Value*
Total Fat 50.0g	78%
Saturated Fat 30.0g	151%
Trans Fat 0.0g
Cholesterol 228mg	76%
Sodium 763mg	32%
Total Carbohydrate 521.0g	174%
Dietary Fiber 9.0g	37%
Sugars 302.0g
Protein 20.0g	40%