Monday, December 16, 2019

No Bake Fruit Cake

16 weetbix, 3/4 cup orange juice, 2 tbspn jam, 2 cups mixed fruit, 1/2 cup nuts, 4 oz butter or margarine, 1 tspn cinnamon, 1/4 tspn nutmeg, 1 tspn vanilla, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 tbspn cocoa.

Method: Combined crushed weetbix with orange juice and jam in large bowl, set aside. Prepare other ingredients. Combined all except butter or margarine and mix thoroughly, add melted butter, mix well and turn into tin lined with paper. Press down firm, leave overnight. Ice if desired, cut into small squares or fingers. Will keep for months in refrigerator.

Source: contributed by Shirley Rohrlach in Blyth Recipe Book: Favourite Tested Recipes of the Blyth Trinity Lutheran Ladies Guild (Blyth Womens Guild, 1972), p.33.

Edited 26/12/2019: as made by the Pineapple Princesses, with a delicious pineapple variation: https://pineappleprincesses.blogspot.com/2019/12/merry-pineapples.html

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