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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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