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Umm.. I’ve got aa.. Four eggs in my coffee cup there. Aa.. One and a half teaspoons of baking powder.

I’ve got one and a half teaspoons of extract. And I use a combination of almond extract and aa.. rum extract. In um.. aa.. Tupperware containers here I have my aa.. cranberries and my cherries and my walnuts also and the remaining one cup of flour.

I’m going to go ahead and aa.. put in my flour first and this is the first batch of flour I’ve got a remaining cup that I’ll stir in a little bit later and were really just going to do this on about a slow to medium speed to get everything incorporated the way that it needs to be. So I’m going to go ahead and throw in my sugar. So what I like to do with the butter and again this is been softened. I just like to put in a little bit at a time aa.. some folks like to just throw it in all together. That’s up to you. I just wanted to kind of gently incorporate into the, into the dry ingredients here. And this is going to be a different fruit cake obviously than what a lot of people are used to.

And we’ve kept it festive as I said by using some of the captain Morgan spice rum so that it will be holiday like and Christmas like. So in with our baking powder. And our extract, again we use a combination of almond extracts as well as rum extract. I’m going to start cut in our 8oz worth of cream cheese. And again I’ll, this is been softened but I’m just going to tear off smaller pieces just so that we get it dispersed into the recipe. Allrighty… now we’ve mixed in all of our ingredients. And I’ve finished off with the eggs. As you can see we’ve got a , a really pretty looking cake batter here. And its going to be quite sweet. You saw the amount of sugar that was poured in there along with all the butter.

So I’m just kind of going to clean the residual off of my beater here. And at that point we can go ahead and unlock our bowl. And what I want to do at this point is aa.. finish with the remaining flour. But I want to do it by hand. so its going to be kind of a slower process and it’s a little bit gentler than the machine. And aa.. all I’m really going to do is just kind of sprinkle this in and as I do that I’m going to use my wire, my wire whip here and incorporate that. Now I just want to sprinkle small amounts at a time. And make sure to get all of the flour off the edges of your bowl. We’ve got a real good consistency coming of here. now I’ve got a non stick spatula which helps a whole lot.

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