Friendship Cake And Starter

Total Time: 720 hrs 50 mins Preparation Time: 720 hrs Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup sliced peach, drained and cut up
• 1 (8 ounce) can pineapple chunks
• 3 maraschino cherries
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 1/4 teaspoons dry active yeast, plus
• 1 1/8 teaspoons dry active yeast
• 2 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 (29 ounce) can peaches
• 1 cup nuts, chopped
• 1 (18 ounce) yellow cake mix (not the pudding kind)
• 1 (3 1/2 ounce) package instant vanilla or 1 (3 1/2 ounce) package instant lemon pudding mix
• 4 eggs
• 2/3 cup oil

Recipe

• 1 yeast starter:.
• 2 combine peaches, pineapple, cherries, sugar and yeast. stir with wooden spoon 3 to 4 times the first day. then stir daily for 2 weeks. store in glass jar on counter with lid just barely set on.
• 3 fruit starter:.
• 4 mix yeast starter, sugar, peaches and place on the counter in a gallon jar with lid. let stand, do not refrigerate. set aside for 10 days, stirring daily.
• 5 on tenth day, add: 1 (30 oz.) can chunk pineapple and juice.
• 6 let stand 10 more days, stirring daily.
• 7 on the 20th day, add: 1 (29 oz.) fruit cocktail and juice 1 (10 oz.) maraschino cherries and juice. let stand 10 more days, stirring daily.
• 8 on the 30th day, drain juice off and give 1 1/2 cups juice to 6 friends along with the recipe.
• 9 there will be enough drained fruit for 4 (9x13 inch) cakes.
• 10 cake:.
• 11 mix cake mix, pudding mix, eggs and oil. add nuts and fruit. spread evenly in greased and floured 9x13 inch pan. bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes.