Ultimate Golden Fruitcake
This is a very convenient version of that cake. Use it in place of a strudel or sweet bread at your next holiday brunch. This recipe will take you all the way through the winter, bringing you a taste of the spring to come. Maybe that's why it got such a great reputation in the first place.
Ingredients
- 1 box yellow cake mix
- 1 8oz carton sour cream
- 3 large eggs
- 1 1/2 C raisins
- 1 1/2 C roughly chopped walnuts or pecans
- 1 C diced mixed citron
- 1 10 oz jar red maraschino cherries, well drained, and left whole
- 1 10 oz jar green maraschino cherries, well drained and left whole
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350° F and grease a 12 C bundt pan well. Or use 2 9 X 5 inch loaf pans, well greased.
- Using an electric mixer, mix cake mix, sour cream and eggs on low speed 30 seconds.
- Scrape bowl sides and bottom and mix on medium speed for 2 minutes.
- Fold in rest of ingredients.
- Spoon evenly into the bundt pan and bake 60 to 70 minutes. Do not underbake.
- Cool 10 minutes in the pan and turn out. Allow to cool completely.
- Brush sides and top with light Karo® syrup if desired.
- Cover tightly with foil.
- Store in refrigerator.