Recipe Brazil Nut Fruitcake (Christmas)

Required Ingredients:

• 4 eggs
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 pound red candied cherries
• 1 pound green candied cherries
• 1 pound Brazil nuts
• 1 pound walnut halves
• 1 pound pecan halves
• 2 pounds pitted dates

Preparing/Cooking:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Grease 3 - 8x4 inch loaf pans and line them with parchment or waxed paper.
• Beat eggs, salt and vanilla together until very light and lemon colored.
• Stir in sugar, 1 cup flour and baking powder.
• Place cherries, nuts, and dates into a large bowl.
• Dust with the remaining 1/2 cup flour.
• Then stir in sugar mixture.
• There is very little batter which makes this a very stiff mixture.
• Mix with hands.
• Press batter into prepared loaf pans.
• Bake for 1 hour.

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