Jack Daniel's Classic Holiday Fruit Cake

Recipe Ingredients

1 cup	198g / 7oz	Butter
2 cups	320g / 11oz	Brown sugar
4		Eggs
3 cups	187g / 6.6oz	All-purpose flour
1 teaspoon	5ml	Baking soda
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Salt
1/2 cup	118ml	Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey - plus more
		For soaking cakes
1/2 cup	118ml	Orange juice
3 cups	438g / 15oz	Pecan halves
2 cups	292g / 10oz	Chopped dried apricots
2 cups	320g / 11oz	Golden raisins
2 cups	292g / 10oz	Chopped dates

Recipe Instructions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease three 8 1/2- by 4 1/2-inch loaf pans. Line pan bottoms with wax paper.

Cream together butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Add eggs, beat well. In separate bowl, sift together flour, baking soda and salt. Add flour to butter mixture alternately with whiskey and orange juice. Beat on low speed just until blended. Stir in fruits and nuts. Spoon into prepared pans.

Bake about 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire rack. Remove from pans. Wrap each in whiskey soaked cheesecloth. Wrap tightly in plastic wrap then aluminum foil. Store in refrigerator for two weeks before serving. Serve thinly sliced.

This recipe yields 3 fruitcakes.

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