[header] How to make a fruit cake [title] Turn on the oven and prepare your pan. [step] Preheat the oven to 325 degrees f. lightly butter an 8-inch springform pan. Cut parchment paper to line the bottom of the pan and place it on top of the buttered bottom. 
Take another long strip of parchment paper and wrap it along the buttered sides of the pan. [substeps] Leave a few inches of parchment paper sticking up and out from the sides of the pan.