Japanese Fruitcake

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Title: Japanese Fruitcake
Categories: Cakes
Yield: 10 servings

1 c Butter or margarine;
-softened
2 c Sugar
4 Eggs
3 1/4 c Cake flour; sifted
1 tb Baking powder
3/4 c Milk
1 ts Vanilla extract
1 ts Ground cinnamon
1 ts Ground allspice
1/4 ts Ground cloves
1 c Raisins
Japanese fruitcake filling
=see recipe for
Seven-minute frosting
; see recipe for

Recipe by: Southern Living
Preparation Time: 0:20
Cream butter; gradually add sugar, beating well at medium
speed of 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 half. Pour plain batter into 2
greased and floured 9-inch round cakepans; pour spiced
batter into 2 greased and floured 9-inch round cakepans.
Bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes or until a wooden
pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10
minutes; remove from pans, and let cool completely on wire
racks. Spread filling between layers. Spread frosting on
top and sides of cake. Yield: one 4-layer cake.

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