Ciji Wagner's Fruitcake

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Rum and brandy spirit this accepted fruitcake from cook Ciji Wagner. There's not a neon-colored candied effect to beryllium seen.

The barroom is astatine its highest aft 3 weeks, but it tin beryllium stored for up to 6 weeks.

Adapted from Ciji Wagner, enforcement cook astatine Drafting Table adjacent Logan Circle.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 20 Makes 1 10-inch loaf oregon Bundt cake

1 1/2 cups dried currants
1 cupful dried cranberries
1/2 cupful dried cherries
1/2 cupful coarsely chopped dried unsulphured unsweetened apricots
3/4 cupful coarsely chopped dried pineapple
1/2 cupful chopped candied ginger
Zest and foodstuff of 2 oranges (3 tablespoons zest, 2/3 to 1 cupful juice)
1 cupful aureate oregon acheronian rum, positive aureate rum oregon brandy for brushing the cake
3/4 cupful sugar
12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter
1/2 cupful unsweetened pome foodstuff oregon brandy
1/4 spoon crushed cloves
1/2 spoon crushed nutmeg
1 1/2 teaspoons crushed cinnamon
1/2 spoon crushed ginger
2 ample eggs
1 3/4 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 spoon baking soda
1 spoon baking powder
3/4 cupful pecan pieces, toasted (see NOTE)
Brandy oregon aureate rum

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
290
Fat
11 g
Saturated Fat
5 g
Carbohydrates
41 g
Sodium
280 mg
Cholesterol
40 mg
Protein
3 g
Fiber
3 g
Sugar
28 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from Ciji Wagner, enforcement cook astatine Drafting Table adjacent Logan Circle.

Tested by Toni Sandys.

Published December 4, 2012

Updated March 14, 2026