 that you can you find out real quick like why they liked it so much today we're making an ice box fruit cake my granny made one every year for my uncle buddy and all the boys loved it that's my uncles and my daddy of course so we're going to put one together they're really easy they keep at least a month in the refrigerator so you can make them ahead they're just really good desserts to have on hand and they're delicious so we're going to get started melting our butter and marshmallow together the first thing you're going to do is take two sticks of butter and you're going to melt it in a large saucepan while you're doing that the mail just go ahead and open up a 12 ounce jar of maraschino cherries and drain it because you're going to reserve the juice and you're going to chop up these cherries we're going to go ahead and add our marshmallow I am toasting two and a half cups of the client in my oven at 350 degrees okay this is 10 ounce package of marshmallows and two sticks of butter so just sit here and stir this until it's nice and melted and together I'm going to go ahead and turn off my eye it's looking good start with mixing up the base for our leaves of graham crackers well it's a whole box of graham crackers plus five I'm just crushing them with my hands because once they get in the mixer with the sticky liquid they're going to crush them or one box of the graham crackers plus five graham crackers that's of toasted pecans and one in one half cups of just regular chopped pecans so the total pecans is four cups you do not have to toast your pecans I just think it adds a little flavor do not over brown them now what we're going to do is we're going to add our cherry juice we're going to add our marshmallows and butter and we're going to start mixing this up on low so we're going to put in our pecans that's one and a half chopped not toasted and this is two and a half we're going to put in our cherries 15 ounces of golden raisins fruit so we're going to mix it up good so they don't roll up you're going to dip into the middle part like a log and then you just slice it like a log roll to serve it box fruit cake our fruit cake it's been in the refrigerator for quite a few hours it's nice and firm I'm going to unroll it and we're going to wrap it in foil after we slice them up and show you how pretty it looks okay here we have our bars your pieces to serve you can wrap it in foil and this will last up to a month in the refrigerator so I am using a serrated knife to show you the inside of our fruit cake and this does not have any of the candy fruit in it so it's really just pecans and cherries now this is a sticky dessert so as soon as you get it out of the refrigerator you need to slice it and get it on the plate and then just wrap it up and put it back in the refrigerator until it's ready to serve you can take the rest of your remaining log and you're going to wrap it in foil and it will stay up to a month in the refrigerator so let's go ahead and get this ready I'll show you how to do that just take your remaining fruit cake oh just like a piece of cheese now you've got a delicious dessert that's going to last through the holiday through New Year's let's taste this old-fashioned family favorite it was they been a field household tradition it is delicious boy when you get about of that you can you find out real quick like why they liked it so much instead of the candied fruit I hope you guys have enjoyed watching our family tradition of ice box fruit cake and I hope you make one soon for your family and friends now thanks for watching collard belly cooks where we cook like granny did this time