{"id":1772,"date":"2026-02-15T18:41:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recipe4thecook.com\/\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:41:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:41:40","slug":"christmas-fruit-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/christmas-fruit-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Fruit Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Ingredients<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>2 C. whole-wheat flour<br \/>\n2 tsp. baking powder<br \/>\n1\/4 tsp. salt<br \/>\n1\/3 C. low-fat margarine<br \/>\n1 C. mixed dark and light raisins<br \/>\n1\/2 C. almonds, chopped<br \/>\n1\/2 C. hazelnuts, chopped<br \/>\nRind of 1 orange fine grated<br \/>\n1 3\/4 C. grated carrots<br \/>\n1\/2 tsp. mixed baking spices<br \/>\n1\/4 tsp. ground cinnamon<br \/>\n1\/2 C. granulated sweetener<br \/>\n2 eggs, beaten<br \/>\n3 Tbsp. orange juice<br \/>\n2 Tbsp. brandy or rum (optional)<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Cooking Instructions<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Heat oven to 350. Mix flour, baking powder and salt together and rub in the margarine  until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add fruit, nuts, orange rind, carrots and spices  and mix well. Mix the sweetener into the eggs and beat into the dry ingredients. Add  enough orange juice to make soft dough. Put the mixture into 8 inch round or 7&#215;7 inch  nonstick cake pan and bake for 45-60 minutes (or use larger pan and reduce cooking  time) When ready, the cake should be firm to the touch and a toothpick should come out  clean. Cool in the cake pan. Turn out upside down, make a few toothpick holes in the  bottom and spoon in any leftover orange juice and alcohol if using. Store in an airtight  container. Suggested icing is made with apples and cottage cheese.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&quot;For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.&quot; (Luke 12:23)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cake<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/christmas-fruit-cake\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cake"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}