The addition of butter sets this fruit cocktail apart from other recipes. It really does matter!
| Prep Time: | 30 mins |
| Cook Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr |
| Servings: | 18 |
| Yield: | 1 to 13 – x inch cake |
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups white sugar
- ½ cup butter, melted
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups self-rising flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 (16 ounce) can fruit cocktail
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9 x 13 inch pan.
- In a large bowl, mix sugar and melted butter or margarine. Add eggs, and beat well. Mix in flour and vanilla. Stir in fruit cocktail. Pour batter into prepared pans.
- Bake for 25 to 35 minutes, or until cake tests done.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 189 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 33 g |
| Cholesterol | 34 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 2 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 222 mg |
| Sugars | 17 g |
| Fat | 6 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I loved it. I made half. I didn’t have fruit cocktail so used mandarin oranges. I made an orange glaze for the top to use up the canned fruit juice.
Tip #1: If you don’t have self-rising flour, just add 1 1/4 tsp baking powder and 1/14 tsp salt for every cup of flour in a recipe. 🙂 Tip#2: It didn’t work too well to convert to a bundt pan, or I needed to increase the time from 45 min to 55. Tasted pretty good anyway! Almost like bread pudding.
I agree with Chad this came out too sugary and dense.
Wonderful cake! I made a sauce of 1/4c butter, 1/2c sugar and 1/4c buttermilk. Boiled it for 5 minutes and added a tsp of vanilla. I poked holes in the cake with a fork while still hot and poured it over the cake. Thanks for a great recipe!
best fruit cake ever,of course I changed and added to the recipe.I used fresh bag of mixed fruit and added cinnamon and nutmeg,Took longer than 35 mins to bake .Worth a try
Sorry, but this was a BIG disappointment. It came out too sugary and dense, like a fruitcake.
Nice, goes very nice with tea and or ice cream.
I like to mash the fruit cocktail just a bit with a potato masher. Less “chunky” that way. Great recipe