Friendship Cake

By Susan M. Thigpen © 1992

Issue: February, 1992

For all of you cooks, our Valentine gift to you is a recipe for Friendship Cake. Because the initial process takes a month, you won't be able to make one for your friends in time for Valentines Day, but there are many other occasions during the year when it would be a welcome gift. Be sure to give a copy of this recipe and a "starter" mix with it so the person you are giving it to can continue the circle of friendship by passing it on to someone else.

Starter Mix

2 1/2 cups sugar
1 large can peaches (1 lb. 13 ozs.) cut into chunks.

Stir every day for 10 days with a wooden spoon then add:

2 1/2 cups sugar
1 large can pineapple chunks (1 lb. 13 ozs.)

Stir every day for 10 days then add:

2 1/2 cups sugar
1 large can fruit cocktail (1 lb. 13 ozs.)
1 ten oz. jar of maraschino cherries

Stir every day for 10 days

Drain fruit for 2 hours in colander or large strainer. Save juice for starter for friends. Give them 1 1/2 cups starter with recipe. They will put their fruit and sugar into the starter syrup. After you bake one cake, repeat the starter mix process for the next one.

Cake

1 box of yellow cake mix
1 box small vanilla instant pudding
2/3 cup oil
4 whole eggs
1 1/2 cups fruit
1 cup chopped nuts

Mix well, bake in cake mold or tube pan at 350 degrees for one hour. Cool and serve with whipped cream or glaze

Glaze Number One

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/2 teaspoon soda
1 stick butter

Cook two minutes and pour over cake in pan while cake is still hot. Leave cake in pan until all glaze is well absorbed into cake.

Glaze Number Two

1 stick butter
1/4 cup Carnation milk
1 cup 10X confectioners sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla

Melt butter, stir in 10X confectioners sugar until melted. Add milk, stir well until mixture begins to thicken and then add vanilla. Stir well. Pour over cake while hot. Leave cake in pan until glaze is well absorbed into cake.