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Japanese Fruitcake Shortcut Recipe

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Cake


Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 layers of Duncan Hines® Yellow
1 layer of Duncan Hines® Spice
1 cup of raisins
½ cup of Golden raisins
1 cup of pecan nut pieces
Only add raisins and nut to the Spice layer.

Directions:
Directions:
Though Appalachia’s apple stack cake tends to get most of the attention, many Southern holiday spreads wouldn’t be complete without an old-fashioned Japanese fruitcake, a layered spice cake with coconut filling or icing.
 

Icing


Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 orange
1 lemon
1 coconut, flaked and coconut milk
2 cups sugar
1 cup boiling water
½ cup flour

Directions:
Directions:
Cook (boil about 5 minutes) until thicken, let cool before icing cake
 

History


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Directions:
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Food historians point to Southern Appalachia as the nexus of this more delicious—albeit unusually named—descendant of the maligned fruitcake. According to Bill Neal’s classic Southern cookbook, Biscuits, Spoonbread, and Sweet Potato Pie, “Japanese fruitcake is an exotically named, typically Southern dessert cake, especially popular in the 20th century. This same cake was once called Oriental cake, but there is nothing of the Far East about it, except the spices, none of which is Japanese in origin. Like Lane Cake and Lady Baltimore, Japanese fruitcake is one of the Edwardian dessert extravaganzas with its rich fruit and nut fillings hidden under mounds of fluffy white icing.”

(source: “Fruitcake That Won’t End Up As A Doorstop.” SM Living, LLC, Smokey Mountain Living, 1 December 2015, https://www.smliv.com/food/fruitcake-that-wont-end-up-as-a-doorstop/(Accessed 08/23/2019).

Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
12
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This was my Daddy’s Favorite Cake. I remember every holiday season my mother made this cake for my Dad. She had us cracking and picking fresh nuts and draining real coconuts so we could scrap them for the flakes (There was no buying pre-packaged coconut or nuts). So, it created a holiday tradition in the house of my childhood.

 

 

 

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