Chiquita Holiday Banana Fruit Cake
Sift flour with sugar, salt and baking powder into a large bowl. Add nuts, dates and cherries and stir so that all nuts and fruits are covered with flour mixture. In another bowl b...
Ingredients
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- 1cupsugar
- 11/2 teaspoons salt
- 11/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2cuppecan halves -- or brazil nuts
- 1pounddates -- pitted
- 8ouncemaraschino cherries -- drained
- 3cupbanana -- sliced
Directions
- 1
Sift flour with sugar, salt and baking powder into a large bowl
- 2
Add nuts, dates and cherries and stir so that all nuts and fruits are covered with flour mixture
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In another bowl beat bananas until mashed
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Add eggs and continue beating until well blended and mixture is light and fluffy
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Fold into flour mixture
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Pour into 8x5x2 #/4 inch loaf pan which has been lined with brown paper and greased well
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Pan will be full, but since the cake dose not rise much
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It will bake satisfactorily.) Bake in 300 degree over for 1 3/4 to 2 hours or until cake springs back when center is touched lightly with th