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New Year's Money Cake Recipe

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Category:
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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
CAKE:

3/4 c. boiling water

1 pkg. regular lemon JELL-O

1 box Yellow Butter Cake Mix

4 eggs (room temperature)

1/4 c. Wesson oil

1 stick BUTTER, room temperature

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1 tsp. freshly grated lemon rind

5-6 dimes (at least one for each person present)

FROSTING:

2 c. powdered sugar, sifted

2 T. fresh lemon juice

pinch of salt
Directions:
Directions:
CAKE:
Bring domes to a boil in a small pot. Boil for 5 minutes and allow to remain in hot water for at least 5 minutes after removing from heat. drain and dry dimes. Wrap in as small a piece of tin foil as possible. Lightly grease and flour a tube or bundt pan. Set aside.
Dissolve JELL-O in boiling water and set aside to cool. Put cake mix in a bowl, make a well in center and add oil and butter. Start mixer and when ingredients are blended, add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each. Add vanilla, JELL-O and grated lemon rind. Mix well until well blended.
Pour half of batter into prepared pan and lightly place the covered dimes flat down on batter around the pan. Add the remaining battter and immediately place in preheated 350º oven for 35-40 minutes or until cakes tests done. Cool in pan on rack for 25 minutes. Carefully remove from pan and allow to cool completely before frosting.
FROSTING:
Mix all ingredients together and spoon over top of cake allowing it to run down sides of cake. You may have to add more sugar or juice to cover the traces of the dimes.

The cake is sliced, beginning with the guests and then in order of age. A dime in your serving signifies good luck for the New Year.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This New Year's Money Cake is a spin-off of the Carolina Epiphany Cake which would be a wonderful tradition to bring back to our holiday season. This cakes gives us a little bit of everything we need to make our new year a happy one. Baked into the cake are a button for faith, a dime for wealth, a bean for wisdom, a thimble for patience, a pea for power, a heart for love and a clove for foolishness.

 

 

 

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