This fruitcake recipe is very easy to make with prepared mincemeat and mixed candied fruit for a quick Christmas-time classic.
Ingredients
- butter for greasing: 1 Tbsp (or as needed)
- ½ cups sifted all-purpose flour: 2 piece
- baking soda: 1 tsp
- prepared mincemeat pie filling: 1 jar (28 ounce jar)
- candied mixed fruit: 2 cups
- sweetened condensed milk: 1 can (14 ounce can)
- walnuts: 1 cup (chopped)
- eggs, lightly: 2 piece (beaten)
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Stages of cooking
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Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Butter two 9x4-inch pans, then line them with parchment paper. Butter the parchment paper.
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Sift flour with baking soda into a medium bowl.
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In a large bowl, combine mincemeat, fruit, condensed milk, nuts, and beaten eggs. Fold in flour mixture until well combined. Pour into the prepared pans.
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Bake in the preheated oven until the centers spring back and the tops are golden brown, about 2 hours. Allow to cool in the pans. Turn cakes out onto a wire rack; remove parchment paper.
