Favorite Christmas Cake

• 2 c. sugar
• 1 c. butter
• 6 egg yolks
• 1 lb. sifted cake flour
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 c. whiskey or brandy (I use apricot)
• 1 lb. white raisins
• 1 lb. chopped pecans
• 6 egg whites, almost stiffly beaten
• whiskey or brandy cheesecloth

1. Cream together butter and sugar.
2. Beat in egg yolks.
3. Add dry ingredients, flour, salt and baking powder alternately with 1/2 cup whiskey.
4. Stir in white raisins and nuts.
5. Fold in beaten egg whites.
6. Turn into well-greased and sugared Bundt or angel food pan.
7. Bake in preheated 300u0b0 oven for approximately 2 hours.
8. Cool, remove from pan.
9. Wrap cake in cheesecloth wet with additional whiskey.
10. Wrap in foil and store in tin, tightly covered.
11. Aging makes it better!

sugar, butter, egg yolks, cake flour, salt, baking powder, whiskey, white raisins, pecans, egg whites, whiskey

Taken from www.cookbooks.com/Recipe-Details.aspx?id=923529 (may not work)