Description:
Starter for Friendship Cake
Ingredients:
Step one:
1
can peaches with syrup
1 can crushed pineapple with syrup
1 6 oz jar maraschino cherries drained and
cut in half
1 cups sugar
1 pkg. Of dry yeast
Directions:
Combine all ingredients in a gallon jar
Stir
two times the first day
leave cover loose
Then once a day for two weeks
After starter ferments for
two weeks begin following steps
Ingredients:
Step two:
Add:
1 can of peaches
1 can of crushed pineapple
1 cup of sugar
Stir everyday for seven days
On 7th day ADD:
1 cup of sugar
1 can of pineapple chunks
Stir every day for 7 days.
Add:
1 one cup of sugar
1 jar of maraschino cherries drained and cut in half
OPTIONAL
Add 1 cup
of what you like
1 cup of raisins chopped, prunes, dates or any fruit you desire with the 1 jar of cherries
well drained
Stir every day for seven days
Drain fruit in calendar and save the juice for future starter
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While fruit is draining, mix in large bowl
12 eggs
2 cups cooking oil
3 yellow or white cake mixes
3 packages vanilla instant pudding
3 cups chopped nuts ( I like brazil nuts)
MIX
WITH DRAINED FRUIT MIX
Grease small bread pans (I use foil pans)
Then sprinkle inside of pans with cinnamon
and sugar mixture
Pour batter into pans to fill about 2/3 full
Bake in preheated 350 degree oven 50 to 60 min.
or till toothpick comes out dry
Directions:
Reserve 2 cups of starter liquid for yourself and divide the rest
among friends
Refrigerate starter in a jar until you are ready to make another batch of friendship cakes.
It
is not necessary to add yeast to starter, just start with step two.
You do not add any starter to the cake mix. It
is just to start the fruit mix.
Number of Servings:
About 8 medium sized loaf pan size cakes