31 Day Friendship Cake

Directions

31 DAY FRIENDSHIP FRUIT CAKE

In a glass gallon jar, add one 16 ounces can of sliced peaches and its juice. (Cut each slice of peaches into 4 pieces.) Add 2 1/2 cups of sugar and stir every day for 10 days. Cover the jar with a saucer and leave sitting out at room temperature. (Don't cover jar airtight or refrigerate.)

DAY 2: Add one 16 ounces can of chunk pineapple and its juice (cut each chunk in half). Add 2 1/2 cups more sugar. Stir every day for 10 more days. Your color has changed and your fruit will foam when it's stirred.

DAY 20: Add 2 small jars maraschino cherries - slice each cherry in half. (Do not add the juice of cherries.) Add 2 1/2 more cups of sugar and stir a final 10 days. The cherries will give your juice back its pinkish color.

DAY 31: You are ready to bake your cakes. You will need ingredients for 3 cakes. One for you and 2 for your friends. You need 3 boxes of Duncan Hines Butter Recipe Golden cake mix, 3 boxes vanilla instant pudding mix, 1 dozen eggs, 1 small bottle Wesson oil, raisins, English or black walnuts, pecans and coconut are all optional but they are all very good in the cake. Any or all of them.

STEP 1: Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Grease and flour tube or bundt pan. If you have (or can borrow from neighbors) 3 pans. You can bake all three at one time. Bake 55 to 65 minutes.

STEP 2: Drain fruits into a large bowl. Pour the juice into 3-pint jars. These are your new starters. One to keep and 2 to give to a friend. Cakes must be started within 3 days after receiving the new starter.

ONE CAKE RECIPE:

STEP 3: Pour 1 box pudding mix 4 eggs 2/3 c. Wesson oil 1 1/2 c. drained fruit

Mix all ingredients into a large bowl and stir with a spoon (do not use an electric mixer). Use only a spoon. Add 1 cup raisins, 1 cup pecans and 1 cup coconut, 1 cup English or black walnuts. Do this for each cake.