Pineapple Fruitcake Recipes

Steps:

• Line an angel food pan with parchment paper and brush with melted butter.
• Cream butter or margarine, and then beat in sugar. Beat in eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in extract. Mix in flour, baking powder, and salt. Stir in raisins, cherries, pineapple, and mixed peel. Cover bowl and let sit at room temperature, 8 hours to overnight.
• Bake at 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) for 2 1/2 hours with a pan of hot water placed on the lowest rack of your oven during baking. Brush warm cake with some melted butter.

Steps:

• Place mixed fruit, sugar, butter and pineapple including juice into a saucepan.
• Simmer for 5 minutes.
• Allow to cool.
• Beat eggs slightly and stir into fruit mixture.
• Sift together the flours, spice and bircarbonate of soda.
• Fold into fruit mixture.
• Place mixture into a greased and lined 30cm cake tin.
• Bake in a moderate oven for 90 minutes.
• Test after 90 minutes.

Steps:

• Put in pan crushed pineapple and juice, butter, raisins, sugar, spice, bicarbonate soda and pinch of salt.
• Boil for 10 minutes, watch that it does not boil over with the bicarbonate of soda in it!
• Cool and then add the beaten eggs and flours.
• Put into an 8x8-inch tin that has been lined with baking paper.
• Bake at 350°F for approximately 1 hour.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• In large bowl, beat dry angel food cake mix and crushed pineapple on low speed 30 seconds; beat on medium speed 1 minute. Pour into ungreased 10-inch tube pan.
• Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until deep golden brown. Cool completely upside down as directed on cake mix box, about 2 hours. Run knife around edges; turn cooled cake out onto serving plate. Use serrated knife to cut into slices. Store covered in refrigerator.

Steps:

• In a bowl, combine the cherries, pineapple, pecans and 1 cup flour; set aside. In a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Beat in vanilla. Combine baking powder and remaining flour; gradually add to creamed mixture. Fold in fruit mixture., Spoon into a greased and waxed paper-lined 10-in. tube pan. Bake at 300° for 1-3/4 to 2 hours or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack. Remove waxed paper while warm; cool completely before slicing.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 275 degrees F (135 degrees C). Grease two 9 inch tube pans.
• In a saucepan over medium heat cook apricots in the water until they are mushy. Press them through a sieve and let them cool.
• Separate the eggs. Beat the egg yolks until lemony colored. Then beat the egg whites until stiff peaks are formed. Set aside.
• Cream the butter or margarine and sugar together. Add the beaten egg yolks and the apricots, and mix thoroughly.
• Combine the raisins, candied cherries, candied pineapple, and mixed dried fruits in a bowl coated with one cup of the flour.
• Combine the remaining flour, baking soda, and salt. Add this flour mixture alternately to the creamed mixture with the apricot juice. Blend this batter into the mixed fruits. Add the chopped pecans or walnuts and fold in the beaten egg whites. Turn the batter into the prepared pans.
• Bake at 275 degrees F (135 degrees C) for 2 hours. Garnish cakes with candied pineapples and cherries. Makes about 24 servings.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300*. Grease and flour (3) 8" x 4" loaf pans.
• Mix fruits, nuts and coconut; set aside.
• Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each. Stir in the pineapple juice.
• Combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Add this to the creamed butter-sugar mixture.
• Fold in the combined fruits, nuts & coconut.
• Spoon into three (3) greased and floured 8" x 4" loaf pans.
• Bake @ 300* for 1 1/2 hours.
• Cool, wrap and store two weeks to mellow.