WOW! I knew there was a lot of ingredients but this is a lot. The fruit and nuts are soaking in rum right now for 3 hours then I get to mix the rest of the ingredients. It's 5lbs. which if sold at a specialist bakery would be $100. So I'm at least satisfied with that. I really cant wait for it to be done.
Hours later...
The fruit cake is in the oven for 3 1/2 hours. I'm looking forward to taking it out and tasting hehe. By the way, I said earlier that the fruits and nuts were 5lbs. Well, with the batter it's over 7lbs. After I put the fruit cake mix in each aluminum container I weighed them (there are 3 cakes) and they are about 2 3/4lbs each.
Update: 1 1/2 hours to go. Boy does it smell so good. I keep looking at it and see it rising and see the color of the cake getting darker and just the smell makes me want to just take it out of the oven early and just take a slice. But I gotta let it cook all the way because if I don't it's not gonna taste right lol.
Update: Ok, I guess I forgot to update this post way back when but the fruit cake was a complete success. I followed the directions completely and it over cooked just a little so it tasted a little burned but that didn't stop it from doing a disappearing act real fast. Next Christmas I'm going to make this again since it was such a hit but not cook it for the exact complete time that it said. Maybe slice off (pun intended) half hour. Just to make sure it doesn't get burned.
