Fruit Cocktail Bread
"Recipe from Tyndall, SD, Good Samaritan cookbook. Great for bake sales and it also freezes well."
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
-
2 loaves
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla
- 4 eggs
- 2 1⁄4 cups flour
- 1 (16 ounce) can fruit cocktail, well drained
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
directions
- Mix cream cheese, butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla until fluffy.
- Fold in flour and baking powder until just mixed.
- Stir in fruit cocktail.
- Pour into 2 greased and floured 9x5 inch loaf pans.
- Bake at 325 for 1 hour.
- Cool 10 minutes in pans; then remove from pans and finish cooling on wire rack.
- May drizzle with powdered sugar icing when cool.
Questions & Replies
-
what can be substituted for the cream cheese?
Reviews
-
This recipe is great!! Mine came out more like a cake than a bread, but delicious!! I will be making more of it, as i have a few cans of fruit cocktail left over from making ambrosia!! Thank you!
-
This bread is sweet and delicious and best served warm right out of the oven. The outside is firm/crusty and the inside is so moist. I was going to ice with powdered sugar icing but did not have any powdered sugar but this bread does not need it. -
Anytime I see 'fruit cocktail' I'm interested, just as your recipe drew my attention! I grew up loving that stuff! Made your recipe just as given, then managed to freeze a loaf before 4 of us almost devoured the other one! Very, very nice, & certainly worth making again! Thanks for sharing the recipe! [Made & reviewed for one of my adopted chefs in this Spring's Pick A Chef event]
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
I live in southeastern South Dakota, near the Missouri River. I am managing editor of the weekly newspaper in a small town ten miles from where I live. I also keep busy with my 13 year old son's activities. It's been a challenge to learn to cook in smaller quantities since both of my daughters are grown and on their own. I enjoying cooking, baking, collecting cookbooks, trying new recipes, reading, hunting, fishing and bowling. My favorite cookbooks are church cookbooks. I have a church cookbook that I received from an aunt as a shower gift 25 years ago that has become "well-worn" and is my "go-to" cookbook along with a couple of other cookbooks that I frequently use. The rest of my cookbooks also get used but not as often as my favorites. My kids laugh at me as I read cookbooks like others read novels and always have sticky notes handy to mark pages with recipes that I want to try.
