Easy Christmas Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• 1½ cup raisins
• ¼ cup orange juice
• 1 cup butter
• 1 packet cream cheese
• 1½ cups brown sugar
• 4 eggs
• 4 teaspoons orange zest
• 1 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon nutmeg

Steps

1. In a saucepan on low heat, warm the raisins and orange juice until the liquid is absorbed.
2. Then, set aside.
3. In a large bowl, beat the butter cream cheese with sugar until fluffy.
4. Beat in the eggs one at a time.
5. Then, stir in the orange zest.
6. Stir again.
7. In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg.
8. Stir into the batter, following with the raisin mixture.
9. Spoon the batter into a greased and floured 9-inch tube pan or bundt pan.
10. Bake in a 300°F (~160°C) oven for about 80 minutes.
11. Check it at 60 minutes with a cake tester or skewer.
12. Let cool in the pan for 5 minutes.
13. Then, turn onto a rack to cool completely.