'Tis the season for fruitcake! This sweetened condensed milk fruit cake recipe is more candy than cake and so delicious. Keep it in the refrigerator indefinitely. Really.
Ingredients
- candied cherries: 1 pound
- candied pineapple: 1 pound
- pitted dates: 1 pound
- pecans: 1 pound (chopped)
- flaked coconut: 4 packages (8 ounce packages)
- all-purpose flour: 3 Tbsp
- sweetened condensed milk: 2 cans (14 ounce cans)
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Lightly grease a 10-inch tube pan. Line bottom of pan with greased parchment paper. Set aside.
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Chop fruit and nuts in a large mixing bowl. Add coconut and mix well with hands. Stir in flour, then sweetened condensed milk. Blend well.
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Pack firmly in prepared tube pan. Bake for 1 1/2 hours. Remove from oven. Run knife around edge of cake and remove rim of pan. When barely warm, remove tube bottom and paper from cake.
