Mrs. Fogarty's Christmas Cake

Anyone else not a fan of the 20 Christmas songs that get played to death in December?  We're always on the hunt for unique Christmas songs, and last year, Mrs. Fogarty's Christmas Cake by the Irish Rovers! You can listen to it on You Tube Here

 

So we had to make a loaf for Christmas Day!  We started with a basic Amish Bread (great Amish Cinnamon Bread recipe) then added in all the extras heard in the song!

Batter:
1 cup butter, softened
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 cups butter milk
4 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda

additions:
1/4 cup plums and prunes (we just used the dried prunes for both), diced

1/4 cup dried cherries, diced 

1 Tbsp citron (we used lemon) rind shavings

1/4 cup rasins

2 tsp ground cinnamon

1/4 cup chopped nuts (we used cashew)

1 tsp ground cloves

1/4 cup dried berries (we used cranberries)

1/4 tsp caraway

"Glue" glaze

2-3 Tbsp milk (divided)

1/2 cup butter

2 cups powdered sugar

Batter:
Grease two bread pans. In mixing bowl cream butter, cups sugar, and eggs, then add remaining batter ingredients and mix well.

Additions:
Put 1/4 of batter in each greased loaf pan.  Combine all additions that you're going to use, then layer half in each pan.  Top with remaining batter.  Bake at 350 degrees in a preheated oven for 45-50 minutes or until toothpick tester comes clean.  Once cooled, spread glaze on top and enjoy!

This was so fun and way more edible than described in the song!  Haha!  Do you have any other unique Christmas songs for us to listen to this year?