Japanese Fruit Cake Iii Food

JAPANESE FRUIT CAKE II

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour 4 (9 inch) round cake pans. Toss together the raisins, coconut and pecans in 1 cup of the flour until coated. Set aside.
• Cream butter and 2 cups sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in yolks one at a time. Sift together remaining 2 cups flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Add to creamed mixture, alternating with milk, mix until blended. Fold in raisin, pecan and coconut mixture.
• In a clean bowl, whip egg whites until stiff peaks develop. Fold into batter until no streaks remain.
• Divide batter into four 9 inch baking pans (about 1 1/2 to 2 cups per pan). Bake in preheated oven for 25 to 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes, then turn out onto wire racks to finish cooling.
• To make the filling: Mix 2 cups sugar and 1/4 cup flour in a saucepan, add water and stir until dissolved. Chop lemons and oranges into small pieces and add to saucepan. Bring to a boil and cook until thick, about 10 minutes. Add 2 cups coconut. Allow to cool.
• Assemble cake with filling between layers, and ending with filling on top.

FRUIT COCKTAIL CAKE III

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9 x 13 inch pan.
• In a large bowl, mix sugar and melted butter or margarine. Add eggs, and beat well. Mix in flour and vanilla. Stir in fruit cocktail. Pour batter into prepared pans.
• Bake for 25 to 35 minutes, or until cake tests done.

JAPANESE FRUIT CAKE

Steps:

• Eggless Cake: Put sugar in mixing bowl.
• Add spices then buttermilk slowly mixing together.
• Mix together flour, soda raisins and nuts and add to buttermilk mixture.
• Blend thoroughly.
• Put in two 8 inch layer pans and cook at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes.
• Japanese Fruit Cake Filling: Combine all ingredients and cook until thick.
• Put between cake layers.

JAPANESE FRUIT CAKE MY MOM USED TO MAKE

Steps:

• TO MAKE CAKE: Cream butter.
• Gradually add sugar beating w/mixer on medium speed.
• Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Combine flour& baking powder; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beginning& ending w/flour mixture, mixing well after each addition.
• Stir in vanilla extract.
• Pour 1/3 of batter into well buttered& floured 9" round cake pan.
• Stir cinnamon& next 3 ingredients into the remaining batter.
• Pour into 2 well-buttered& floured 9" round cake pans.
• Bake at 350 degrees F for 20 to 25 minutes or until knife blade inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool in pans 10 minutes, remove& cool completely on racks.
• Spread frosting between layers, on top& sides.
• Stack white layer between the 2 spiced layers.
• Garnish with pecan halves.
• FROSTING: Dissolve cornstarch in 1/2 cup water; set aside.
• Bring remaining 1 cup water to boiling in medium saucepan.
• Stir in the sugar, rind& juice.
• Return to a boil.
• Cook to soft ball stage (236 degrees F), stirring often.
• Gradually add to cornstarch mixture& continue.
• stirring.
• Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until thick& bubbly.
• Remove from heat, stir in coconut.
• Cool.
• Stir frosting before spreading on cake.

JAPANESE FRUIT CAKE

Steps:

• --DARK LAYERS--.
• Mix together all ingredients except raisins, orange peel and nuts. Grind these or chop fine and mix with the cake mixture. Bake in 9" cake pans until done at 350 degrees. --.
• --WHITE LAYERS--.
• Mix and bake in layers, 9" pans at 350 degrees until done. --.
• --FILLING--.
• Mix ingredients together and cook about 20 minutes, stirring constantly, let cool a little and spread between layers of cooled cake layers.
• This recipe makes 2 cakes. Split each cake into half so that you have 2 layers each of light and dark cakes. Alternate layers when putting fruitcake together so that you have 1 dark, 1 white, 1 dark, 1 white layer.

JAPANESE FRUITCAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Butter insides of 2 9-inch layer cake pans. Sprinkle with flour and shake out excess.
• Cream together sugar and 1/2 pound of butter in mixing bowl until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Sift together 3 1/3 cups flour and baking powder and add mixture to batter alternately with milk and vanilla.
• Spoon and scrape half batter into one of prepared pans and smooth over top with spatula. Set aside.
• To remaining batter add allspice, cinnamon and cloves.
• Chop raisins and pecans and add them. Blend well. Spoon and scrape mixture into second pan. Smooth over top. Place in oven and bake 25 to 35 minutes or until straw inserted into center comes out clean. White cake will cook faster than fruit-and-nut cake.
• Remove layers from oven and let cool on rack about 5 minutes. Turn cakes out onto rack and let stand until completely cool.
• To prepare filling, combine 1 cup of water, lemon juice, lemon rind, 2 cups of coconut and sugar in saucepan. Bring to a boil.
• Combine cornstarch with the remaining 1/2 cup of water. Blend well and stir this into sauce. Cook over moderately low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture mounds or lumps when dropped from spoon (the temperature should be 205 to 210 degrees). Let cool.
• Place fruit-and-nut cake on cake plate and frost the top. Top this with white cake. Frost cake, top and sides. Sprinkle remaining coconut over the cake. The cake may be served immediately but is best if left to stand a day or so.

JAPANESE FRUIT CAKE I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour three 9 inch round cake pans.
• Cream together butter, 2 cups sugar, eggs, and vanilla.
• Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Add flour mixture alternately with milk into egg mixture. Divide batter into 3 parts. Fill two pans with plain batter. Add spices, raisins, and nuts into remaining batter, and pour batter into third pan.
• Bake for 25 minutes, or until done. Cool layers on wire racks.
• Mix together orange juice and rind, 2 cups coconut, 2 cups sugar, boiling water, and cornstarch in a 2 quart pan. Bring to a boil, and cook until mixture falls in lumps from a spoon. Put layers together with filling, placing spiced layer in the center. Ice cake with Seven Minute Frosting, and cover with remaining coconut.

BABY FOOD CAKE III

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch Bundt pan.
• Sift together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves and salt. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, combine sugar, eggs, and oil. Beat until smooth. Mix in baby food and nuts. Beat in flour mixture alternately with applesauce. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 45 minutes. Cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.

JAPANESE FRUITCAKE

Steps:

• Cake:.
• Cream butter; gradually add sugar, beating well at medium speed with an electric mixer. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Combine flour, and baking powder, add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Mix after each addition, stir in vanilla.
• Divide batter in half, stir spices and raisins into one hals. Pour plain batter into 2 greased and floured 9 inch round cake pans; por spiced batter into 2 greased and floured 9 inch round cake pans.Bake at 350F for 20-25 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes, remove from pans, cool completely on wire racks.
• Spread filling between layers. Spread frosting on top and sides of cake.
• Filling:.
• Combine all ingredients in a medium saucepan, stirring until cornatarch dissolves. Cook over medium heat , stirring constantly 1 minute or until thickened and bubbly.Cool completely, before spreading on cake. ( 3 1/3 cups).
• Frosting:.
• Combine all ingredients except vanilla in top of a large double boiler. Beat at low speed with an electric mixer 30 seconds or just until blended.
• Place over boiling water, beat constantly on high speed 7 minutes or until stiff peak form. Remove from heat. Add vanilla; beat 2 minutes or until frosting is thick enough to spread. (4 1/2 cups).