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- From: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva)
- Subject: Friendship Cake
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- Organization: Taronga Park BBS
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 23:00:47 CST
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- Title: FRIENDSHIP FRUITCAKE
- Category: Dessert, Cake
- Servings: 20
-
- Ingredients:
-
- 1 ea 2-Layer box yellow cake mix with pudding in the mix (18.5 to
- 28oz size)
- 1/3 C Vegetable oil
- 4 Eggs
- 1 3/4 C Fruit from starter (See note)
- 1 C Chopped pecans
- Confectioners sugar (if desired)
- Cream cheese frosting (if desired) from your favorite recipe
-
- Line the bottom of a springform angel food cake pan with waxed paper,
- grease well, then flour.
-
- In large mixing bowl of electric mixer, combine dry cake mix and oil.
- Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well. Add fruit; mix well. Fold
- in nuts. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake in a pre-heated 350-
- degree oven 40 minutes, then reduce heat to 300 degrees and bake 35 to
- 40 minutes more, or until cake tests done.
-
- Shake pan to loosen cake from sides and let sit 10 minutes. Lift the
- center of the pan out and turn cake onto cake plate. Remove waxed
- paper. Turn cake right-side up before serving. Sprinkle with
- confectioners sugar if desired, or top with cream cheese frosting. This
- cake tastes better when cold.
-
- NOTE: You will use from 1 1/2 to 2 cups drained fruit per cake.
-
- STARTER FOR FRIENDSHIP FRUITCAKE
-
- 3/4 C Canned sliced peaches with syrup
- 3/4 C canned pineapple chunks with syrup
- 4 oz Red maraschino cherries, drained, halved
- 1 1/2 C Granulated sugar
- 1 ea Active dry yeast package
-
- For Later Addition:
- 1/2 C Canned sliced peaches with syrup
- 1/2 C Canned pineapple chunks with syrup
-
- To Replenish Starter:
- DAY 1:
- 1 1/2 C Starter juice
- 2 1/2 C Granulated sugar
- 2 lb Can sliced peaches with syrup
- DAY 10:
- 2 1/2 C Granulated sugar
- 2 lb Can pineapple chunks with juice or 1 1-lb can pineapple chunks
- and 1 1-lb can fruit cocktail
- DAY 20:
- 2 1/2 C Granulated sugar
- 2 ea (4-oz) jars maraschino cherries, drained and halved (You can
- use 1 jar of red and one jar of green for color, or use 1 10-oz
- jar).
-
- In a 1-gallon glass jar with wide mouth and lid, combine the
- peaches, pineapple, maraschino cherries, sugar and yeast (make sure the
- yeast is well mixed with syrup). Stir two times the first day. Stir
- once a day afterwards. Do not refrigerate this mixture. Keep loosely
- covered.
-
- Two weeks after starting the starter, add 1/2 cup peaches and 1/2 cup
- pineapple with syrup.
-
- Wait several days, stirring daily, then drain 2 cups of mixed fruit
- and use to make cake as directed in the cake recipe (see recipe above).
- Reserve 1 1/2 cups starter juice and leave in glass gallon jar. Count
- this as Day One, and begin the process for renewing starter and making
- cake.
-
- DAY 1: To reserved 1 1/2 cups starter juice (or to starter juice given
- you by a friend), add 2 1/2 cups sugar and a 2-lb can of peaches with
- syrup. Stir daily. Keep loosely covered. Do not refrigerate.
-
- DAY 10: Add 2 1/2 cups granulated sugar and pineapple chunks with
- juice. Stir daily. Keep loosely covered. Do not refrigerate.
-
- DAY 20: Add 2 1/2 cups granulated sugar and drained and halved
- maraschino cherries. Stir daily. Keep loosely covered. Do not
- refrigerate.
-
- DAY 30: Drain fruit, reserving 1 1/2 cups juice for renewing starter.
- Use drained fruit to make 3 cakes (see recipe), give excess starter
- juice to friends, and start a new batch of fruit (repeat aforementioned
- process).
-
- NOTE: At the end of 30 days, you will have enough excess starter
- juice to give to about four friends. Be sure to keep enough juice (1
- 1/2 cups) for your own starter. At the end of 30 days, there will be
- enough fruit to use 1 3/4 cups fruit in each cake, which makes the cake
- better and doesn't waste the fruit. The cakes can be frozen. It is not
- necessary to bake all three cakes the same day, but stir the remaining
- fruit mixture every day until it is used (this fruit mixture can be
- refrigerated until used). The drained fruit can be frozen until you are
- ready to bake the cakes.
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