Holiday Fruit Cocktail Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease one 9x9 inch square baking pan.
• Combine the flour, white sugar, egg, baking soda, vanilla and undrained fruit cocktail. Mix until blended. Pour batter into the prepared pan and sprinkle the top with the brown sugar.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 40 minutes or until golden brown and firm.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, stir together flour, sugar, baking soda and salt.
• Add eggs, fruit cocktail and vanilla and mix all ingredients well (by hand--do not use electric mixer); batter will seem very thick at first (if you use good fruit cocktail that has mostly fruit, not all juice), but this is the way it should be (the juice in the fruit cocktail is the only liquid in this recipe except, of course, the eggs).
• Pour into a greased 9 inch x 13 inch pan.
• Bake at 350°F for about 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean.
• This cake is best with Fruit Cocktail Cake Icing #7062.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Spray one 8 x 8 inch square baking pan with cooking spray.
• In a medium sized bowl combine flour, white sugar, salt, baking powder, egg, and fruit cocktail. Mix until just combined and pour into the prepared pan. Sprinkle top with the brown sugar.
• Bake at 32 degrees F (165 degrees C) for 45 minutes or until golden brown.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°. Combine fruit and nuts. In another bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Combine flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture and mix well. Pour over fruit and nuts; stir to coat. , Transfer to a greased and floured 10-in. tube pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 2 hours. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. Wrap tightly and store in a cool place. Bring to room temperature before serving; slice with a serrated knife.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine all cake ingredients; mix well. Pour into a 13x9-in. pan and sprinkle with topping ingredients. Bake at 350° for 35-40 minutes. Meanwhile, combine all sauce ingredients in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil. When cake is done and still warm, pour sauce over cake. Cool to room temperature.

Steps:

• Mix together by hand the flour, sugar, soda, salt, eggs and fruit cocktail with juice.
• Do not over mix and do not beat.
• Pour into a 9x13 cake pan sprayed with pam.
• Sprinkle 1/2 cup brown sugar and 1/2 cup chopped pecans over top of cake.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 40 minutes.
• Remove and place on a rack to cool.
• While cooling (15 minutes) in a medium pan bring to a slow boil the evaporated milk, sugar and butter.
• Once the butter is melted and the slow boil is reached remove from heat and stir in the vanilla.
• With a carving fork poke"lots" of holes in the cake and slowly pour butter sauce evenly all through cake.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Grease a 13x9-inch pan.
• In a mixing bowl lightly beat the eggs, then stir in the sugar, baking soda, salt and fruit cocktail with juice.
• Stir in flour, blending well, then turn into the prepared pan.
• Bake for 30- 35 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean.
• Leave cake in pan.
• To make the icing-------------------->>>.
• In a medium saucepan combine sugar, milk and butter and bring to a boil.
• Boil for a minute.
• Stir in vanilla.
• Pour hot syrup over fork poked cake while it is still hot from the oven.
• Serve from pan while still warm or cooled.

Steps:

• Drain the fruit, beating the juice with the egg till creamy.
• Add the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt.
• Fold in the fruit.
• Pour into a greased 8 x 8 inch pan. Top with nuts and brown sugar.
• Bake for 35 minute at 350.
• Serve with dollops of fresh whipped cream.

Steps:

• Preheat to 325*.
• Combine cake mix, fruit cocktail with juices, 1 cup of coconut and eggs in a large mixer bowl.
• Blend, then beat at medium speed for 2 minutes.
• Pour batter into greased 9x13 pan, or two 8x8 pans.
• Sprinkle batter evenly with remaining 1/2 cup of coconut, and then 1/2 cup of brown sugar.
• Bake at 325* for 45 min (if 9x13 pan; about 30-35 min for two pans).
• Serve warm or room temp; stays moist for several days.