Festive fruit breads and quick holiday cakes ideas
Aunt Ruth's recipe box offers fruit breads and fruitcake variations for Christmas. Suggestions include Apricot Almond Bread, Granola Bread, Apple Cheese Bread, Quick Chocolate Date Bread, Quick Coconut Date Bread, Lemon Bread with glaze, Banana Gift Cake, and Candied Pineapple Vegetables Fruitcake. The Basic Batter uses sour cream and invites personalization.
Quick Coconut Date Bread From Coconut Date Mix
Combine prepared bread mix with flaked coconut and grated orange rind. Divide the batter into three greased foil loaf pans and bake at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes until tester comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes, then remove and finish cooling on racks. Glaze with confectioners sugar glaze and garnish with orange slices and extra coconut if desired. Confectioners sugar glaze: add hot milk or water gradually to sifted sugar until smooth.
Basic Batter 2 with Optional Bread Additions
A basic batter combines butter sugar eggs sour cream and dry ingredients before adding optional mix ins. ChooseAPR Icot Almond Bread with apricots almonds and almond flavoring or Granola Bread with granola and orange rind then glaze the hot loaf with orange juice and powdered sugar.
Candied Pineapple Vegetable Fruitcake Recipe
Instructions for making a candied pineapple and vegetable fruitcake with pecans and spices. Includes ingredients such as candied pineapple and vegetables, pecans, flour, butter, eggs, sugar, and sherry or pineapple juice, plus method from creaming to baking a 9 inch tube pan. Yield stated as one cake.
Confectioners Sugar Glaze and Candied Fruit From Mixes
A vintage kitchen note outlines preparing a quick bread mix with chocolate and a confectioners sugar glaze. It details glazing steps, a lemony glaze, and a yield of one loaf, plus separate candying methods for pineapple and celery with precise sugar syrups and cooling times.
Candied Carrots or Beets Recipe Card
Instructions describe making candied carrots or beets from 1 lb cans with sugar and water. Drain, dissolve sugar in syrup, simmer, rest overnight, reheat, then dry to finish. Yield about 1 1/2 cups. If cooking two cans, repeat syrup cooking twice more and rest overnight on each day.
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