Old Fashioned Rum Fruit Cake Recipe. Before making the cake bring the fruit to room temperature and drain reserving any liquid for basting. Place the entire cake setup in the oven very carefully and bake the cake for 2 hrs.
Add the rest of your ingredients. You need a long slow bake to keep the fruit from burning. In a medium bowl with lid add all of your chopped fruits and add 14 cup dark rum cover and soak over night or few hours at room temperature.
This will make sure your cake has a nice brown color on top but without any tress of burningblackening.
In a large bowl beat butter sugar and eggs with an electric mixer until fluffy adding eggs one at a time until yolk dissapears. Add egg s and stir in flour and spices. In a large bowl beat butter sugar and eggs with an electric mixer until fluffy adding eggs one at a time until yolk dissapears. Sift together next 4.