Fruit Cake Recipes

Ingredients:
3/4 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 cups flour
2 eggs
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
10 ounces guava paste

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350F Cream butter. Add sugar little by little. Add eggs one by one, followed by vanilla. Sift flour together with baking soda and salt. Mix with the sugar/egg mixture. Pour half the batter in a greased square (8×8) cake pan. Cut the guava paste in slices and use the slices to cover all the batter. Pour the rest of the batter on top of the guava slices. Place in oven and bake for 45-60 minutes. Check cake for doneness (an inserted toothpick comes out clean) as oven temperatures varies.

This recipe for Guava Cake serves/makes 8

Ingredients:
1 package Yellow Cake Mix
4 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup water
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon banana extract
1 teaspoon rum extract
1 cup mashed bananas
1 cup chopped walnuts

Directions:

Mix first 7 ingredients until blended. Stir in mashed bananas. Fold in nuts. Bake at 350F degrees for 45 minutes.

This recipe for Banana Walnut Cake serves/makes 10

Ingredients:
1/2 cup Reduced-calorie margarine,
2 1/2 cups sugar equivalent, divided
2 Eggs
1 1/2 cup All-purpose flour
1 teaspoon Baking powder
1/2 teaspoon Baking soda
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1/2 cup Milk
4 slice Unsweetened Pineapple, canned drained
Vegetable cooking spray.
1/2 cup Unsweetened pineapple juice,

Directions:

Cream margarine and 2 tablespoons sugars substitute until light and fluffy.

Add eggs, one at time, beating well at medium speed of an electric mixer.

Combine flour, baking powder, soda and salt. Add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed after each addition. Cut pineapple into 1/2″ pieces and gently fold into batter. Spoon batter into a 6-cup Bundt pan or heavy ring mold coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350 degrees 45 to 50 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Combine pineapple juice and remaining 1 tablespoon sugar substitute, stirring until sugar substitute dissolves.

Remove cake from oven and immediately pour juice cake from pan and cool completely on a wire rack.

This recipe for Pineapple Cake serves/makes 12