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Chocolate Cherry Fruit Cake
This recipe comes from the best Christmas magazine of all times, the December 1976 issue of Better Homes and Gardens. This is one of several things from that issue that we still make almost every year. This is a fruit cake for people who don't like fruit cakes, with it's chocolate dough and cherries the only candied fruit. Unlike the Jack Daniel's Fruit Cake, this one has only enough batter to hold the fruits and nuts together.
2 c Candied Cherries
1 c Raisins
1 c Pitted Dates,Chopped
1 c Walnuts,Chopped
1/2 c Flour
1/2 c Unsalted Butter
1/2 c Sugar
1/2 c Egg Substitute or 2 Large Eggs
3/4 c Flour
1/4 c Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
1 t Sodium Free Baking Powder
1/3 c Buttermilk
Combine cherries, raisins, dates, nuts and the 1/2 cup flour. Set aside. Cream together margarine and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs, beat well. Stir together remaining flour, baking powder and cocoa. Add to butter mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well. Fold in fruit and nut mixture. Spoon into 2 well greased 8X4 loaf pans. Bake at 275 at 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 hours. Cool in pans 10 minutes. Remove. Wrap in cheesecloth soaked in Kirsch or cherry brandy. Wrap in foil. Store in refrigerator, moistening cheesecloth with additional Kirsch or brandy weekly.
Yield: 24 Servings
Sodium Category: VeryLowSodium
Diabetic Exchanges
1.5 Starch
1.5 Fruit
0 Milk
0 Other Carbohydrates
0 Vegetable
0 Lean Meat
0 Very Lean Meat
2 Fat
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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 Helping Servings Per Recipe 24 Amount Per Serving |
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| Calories | 247 |
| Calories from Fat | 65 |
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Total Fat 7 gr Saturated Fat 3 gr Polyunsaturated Fat 2 gr Monounsaturated Fat 2 gr Cholesterol 0 mg Sodium 35 mg Potassium 192 mg Carbohydrates 45 gr Dietary Fiber 2.9gr Protein 3 gr |
11% 14% 0% 1% 5% 15% 12% |
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Vitamin A Vitamin C Calcium Iron |
6% 1% 3% 5% |
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* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet |
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