Great Grandmother's Fruit Filled Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 23
- Yields:
-
1 cake
- Serves:
- 8-12
ingredients
-
CAKE
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 1⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 8 egg whites, stiffly beaten
-
FILLING
- 8 egg yolks
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1 cup raisins
- 1 cup flaked coconut
- 1⁄2 cup Bourbon
- 1⁄2 cup sliced maraschino cherry
-
FROSTING
- 3⁄4 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons water
- 2 teaspoons water
- 1 egg white
- 1⁄2 tablespoon light corn syrup
- 1 dash salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract
directions
- CAKE:.
- Cream butter; gradually add sugar, beating well.
- Combine dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Mix well after each addition.
- Stir in vanilla and fold in egg whites.
- Pour batter into 3 greased and floured 9-inch round cakepans. Bake at 325 for 25 minutes or done. Cool 10 minutes then remove from pans and cool completely.
- FILLING:.
- Combine egg yolks, sugar, and butter in a 2 quart saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constant until thickened, about 20 minutes.
- Remove from heat and stir in remaining ingredients. Cool completely.
- FROSTING:.
- Combine first 5 frosting ingredients in double broiler; beat 30 seconds at low speed with mixer or until blended.
- Place over boiling water, beating constantly on high for about 8 minutes or until peaks form.
- Remove from heat and add vanilla. beat an additional 1 minute or until thick enough to spread.
- Build the cake using the filling in between each layer. There is enough frosting to cover the top and sides of this 3 layer cake.
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