FIESTA FRUITCAKE


1 cup candied pineapple, cut in chunks
1 cup red and green glace cherries
3 cups shelled Brazil nuts
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
4 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla or rum flavoring


Line two 9x5" pans with foil and grease well. Mix fruit and nuts in a large bowl.
Sift flour, sugar, baking powder and salt together. Add to fruit and nuts. Beat 
eggs well; stir in flavoring. Add egg mixture to floured fruit and nuts. Mix well.
Spoon into pans. Bake at 350F for 1 hour. Cool in pans for 10 minutes, then remove
from pans and cool on wire racks. When cool, wrap tightly in foil or plastic wrap.

2 loaves.