Memorial Day Recipes

Fruit Cocktail Cake

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Fruit Cocktail Cake

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This is my mom's recipe and every time she makes it, she gets requests for the recipe.

Shared by rebecca1957

Time needed

15 min preparation + 45 min cooking

Serving Size / Yield

18 servings

Ingredients

  • Batter:
  • 2 C. plain flour
  • 2 tsp. soda
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1 1/2 C. sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 lg. can fruit cocktail (undrained)
  • Icing:
  • I stick butter
  • 1 C. evaporated milk
  • 1 1/2 C. sugar
  • Topping:
  • 1 C. coconut
  • 1 C. chopped pecans
  • 2/3 C. brown sugar

Directions

For icing: Mix icing ingredients together and bring to a boil.


Sift flour, soda and salt together.  Stir in sugar, eggs, vanilla and juice from fruit, then gently fold in fruit cocktail.  Pour in greased 9 x 13 inch pan and bake at 350 for 40 or 50 minutes.  Poke holes in hot cake with the handle of a wooden spoon. Have the icing ready to pour over the cake when it comes out of the oven. Pour the hot mixture on the cake to soak into the holes you have poked in the cake.


Mix together toppings, sprinkle over cake and brown lightly under broiler, watching carefully.

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