Buttermilk Christmas Pecan Fruitcake Recipe
Buttermilk Christmas Pecan Fruitcake Recipe
Ingredients:
4 & 1/2 c of flour
1 tsp of baking soda
3 c of dried pears; chopped
4 large eggs
1 c of butter
2 c of buttermilk
2 tsps of vanilla
3 c of sugar
2 c of chopped pecans
1 tsp of salt
2 tsps of baking powder
Instructions:
Prepare the oven. Preheat it to four hundred degrees Fahrenheit. Grease & lightly flour four loaf-shaped pans. Have eggs separated. Mix baking powder & soda, salt & flour.
Stir in pecans and pears, blend thoroughly. Gradually add in eggyolks, beat after every addition. Then you add the vanilla & beat mixture again.
Add the dry components alternately w/ buttermilk, blend after every addition. Beat eggwhites using electric mixer ’til moist, glossy peaks form.
Fold one-third of eggwhites into the batter and gradually fold rest of the eggwhites once mixture lightens. Have loaf-shaped pans 2/3 filled w/ batter.
Adjust heat (350 degrees F) then allow cake to bake for 65 mins or ’til cake test is completed. Rotate the pans from front and then to back on every rack ten mins before baking is done.
Cool for 5 mins then you turn them out w/ right-side up. Decorate w/ nuts & mixed fruit peeling, then serve.
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