Cranberry Fruit And Nut Bread

Ingredients

170 gr butter
100 gr sugar
3 eggs
325 gr all purpose flour
7 gr baking powder
7 gr baking soda
3 gr salt
1 gr nutmeg
350 ml commercial sour cream
4 gr vanilla extract
100 gr cranberries
65 gr pecans
85 gr golden raisins
45 gr apricots
200 gr powdered sugar
30 ml milk

Instructions

Cream butter in a large mixing bowl; gradually add sugar, beating well. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine flour, baking powder, soda, salt, and nutmeg; add to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Mix just until blended after each adddition Stir in vanilla. Fold in cranberries, chopped pecans, raisins, and apricots.. Pour batter into 2 greased and floured 8- half x 20.5 x 8 cm loafpans; arrange pecan halves on top . Bake at 0ÂșC . for 55 to 60 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans, and cool completely. arrange whole cranberries on loaf. Combine powdered sugar and milk, mixing well; drizzle over loaves. Yield: 2 loaves. Recipe from: Creative Ideas For Living magazine, December 1984