Spice Cake Mix for Fruit Cake?

My wife has a box of Betty Crocker spice cake mix and would like to know whether anyone has a recipe for a fruit cake using that mix. I don't see one at their website, and I've become overloaded with Google's results for fruit cakes but not a specific recipe using the above combination.

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Dan Wenz
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Considering how expensive the ingredients are for a decent fruit cake, I can't see using a cake mix for the batter. I would tale a look at one of these recipes. The Christmas fruitcakes look like winners:

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traditional fruitcakes improve with age, so I wouldn't count on eatingone for about a month.

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Vox Humana

a google on 'fruitcake "spice cake" mix recipe' (use the double quotes) gives these links.

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on '"fruit cake" "spice cake" mix recipe yields
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may be duplicates, and I've not tried any of them, preferring tomake my fruitcakes from scratch. You might simply try adding your prepared fruitcake mix to the cake batter until it 'looks right'. (prepared means chopped, soaked, dredged, etc.)

jenn

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Jenn Ridley

Dan Wenz wrote in news:l_ednWOB8szdOH6iRVn- snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

As a long time baker of various fruitcakes, I cannot imagine using an ordinary cakemix for the batter. Fruitcakes are geenrally made with a batter more akin to poundcakes. If I were forced to use a mix, I would choose a poundcake mix. Ordinary cake mixes produce too airy and light a cake to properly support the fruitcake ingredients.

Wayne

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Wayne Boatwright

I agree completely. Not only is the texture wrong, but the spices in boxed spice cake mix are very weak and artificial tasting. I think you not only need a dense batter, but you also need to use fresh, potent spices to balance the extreme sweetness of the glace fruit and the stronger flavors of the dates and currants.

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Vox Humana

Thanks to all of you responders - All comments were forwarded to my wife to do with them what she will (Been married too long to argue the logic of fruit cake baking with her)!

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Dan Wenz

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