Print: Grandma Leach's Fruitcake

This fruitcake is really moist and packed with juicy raisins, dates, and walnuts. This is my grandmother's recipe that makes two cakes. She always said applesauce was the secret ingredient. I sold these fruit cakes at bake sales for years. We had so many customers who returned every year to get one!

Prep

23 min

Cook

35 min

Servings

Difficulty

Hard

Ingredients

4 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups white sugar
0.25 cups unsweetened cocoa powder
2 tablespoons cornstarch
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons ground cloves
3 cups unsweetened applesauce
0.75 cups vegetable oil
1 cup raisins
1 cup chopped pitted dates
1 pound candied mixed fruit
2 cups chopped walnuts
0.5 cups walnut halves , Optional
1 cup halved candied cherries , Optional

Instructions

1 Gather all ingredients. Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch tube pan and one 9x5 inch loaf pan.
2 Sift flour, sugar, cocoa, cornstarch, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and cloves into a large bowl.
3 Stir in applesauce and oil, then mix in raisins, dates, mixed fruit, and 2 cups of walnuts.
4 Pour into the prepared pans, about 3/4 full.
5 Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the crown of the cake comes out clean, about 1 hour.
6 Cool cake and decorate with walnut halves and candied cherry halves.

Nutrition per serving

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