Fruit Cocktail Cake

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Michelle Poteaux, pastry cook and co-owner of Alexandria's Bastille restaurant, upgraded a religion cookbook look for effect cocktail barroom by adding a brownish sugar-lime glaze, spices and pick food frosting with coconut and pecans. The existent quality of the barroom is that the effect provides the moisture to the batter alternatively of fat; determination is nary food oregon lipid successful the layers. The frosting is different substance entirely.

The finished barroom tin beryllium made up to 2 days successful advance, covered and refrigerated. Let it basal astatine country somesthesia for 2 to 3 hours earlier serving. (It's champion to adhd the pecans and coconut to the apical of the barroom connected the time you mean to service it.)

From cook Poteaux.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 12

For the glaze

1 cupful firmly packed airy brownish sugar
Freshly squeezed foodstuff from 4 limes (1/2 cup)
1/4 spoon salt
1 spoon vanilla extract

For the cake

2 cups sifted flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 spoon crushed cinnamon
1/4 spoon freshly grated nutmeg
1/2 spoon salt
2 ample eggs, astatine country temperature, lightly beaten
15 ounces (1 can) effect cocktail successful airy syrup (with syrup)
1 spoon vanilla extract
1/2 spoon almond extract

For the frosting

1 lb pick cheese, astatine country temperature
1/2 cupful unsalted butter, astatine country temperature
2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
1 spoon vanilla extract
1/4 spoon salt
1 cupful chopped pecans, toasted (see NOTE)
1 cupful shredded sweetened coconut

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
660
Fat
31 g
Saturated Fat
16 g
Carbohydrates
91 g
Sodium
560 mg
Cholesterol
95 mg
Protein
7 g
Fiber
2 g
Sugar
71 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From cook Poteaux.

Tested by David Hagedorn.

Published September 21, 2010

Updated March 13, 2026