Fruit Cake

Ingredients:

• 227 g butter

• 6 large eggs

• 163 g brown sugar

• 53 g molasses

• 125 g almond flour

• 1 tbsp ground allspice

• 907 g fruit (sour cherries, apricots, raisins, etc.)

• 454 g chopped pecans

Method:

1. Preheat your oven to 250 F.

2. Butter round pans, placing parchment on bottom and on sides, extending higher than the lip.

3. Cream butter and sugar. Add molasses.

4. Whip eggs and add to butter mixture slowly.

5. Add nuts and fruit, stir. Add flour, stir.

6. Set pans in one inch of water. Bake for 2 hours, 45 minutes.

7. Remove cakes. 

8. Garnish with more fruit and nuts and glaze with apricot jam heated with alcohol (rum, brandy, etc.)

9. Let cool. Remove from pans. Wrap and store in cool place.

Recipe is a modified version of Martha Stewart's fruit cake recipe.