Christmas Fruitcake With Fruit Filling Recipe

Directions:

1. For cake: Cream butter and sugar, add eggs, and mix.
2. Combine all dry ingredients and then combine all wet ingredients, except jam, in separate bowls.
3. Add dry and wet ingredients alternately to creamed mixture.
4. Add jam and mix well.
5. Lightly dredge fruit with 1/2 cup flour, shake off excess flour and fold into batter.
6. Fold in nuts.
7. Cook in 4 greased and floured layer pans at 325 degrees for 1 1/2 hours.
8. Fill and ice with filling below.
9. Makes 2 two-layer cakes.
10. For filling: Cook sugar, cream, and flour in a double boiler until thick.
11. Add butter and stir well.
12. Cook until thick again.
13. Add fruit and beat well.
14. Mixture will thicken again as it is beaten.
15. Put between layers and ice top and sides of cake.
16. Ices and fills 2 two-layer cakes.