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      Title: MINCEMEAT CAKE
 Categories: Cakes, Desserts, Harned 1994, Nuts
      Yield: 16 Servings
 
  2 1/2 c  Flour
      2 ts Baking powder
      1 ts Soda
      1 ts Salt
    1/2 ts Cloves
    1/2 ts Nutmeg
    1/2 ts Cinnamon
    1/2 c  Shortening
  1 1/2 c  Sugar
      3    Eggs
      1 c  Milk
      1 ts Vanilla
  1 1/2 c  Mincemeat
      1 c  Chopped nuts

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      2 c  Brown sugar
      4 tb Butter
      6 tb Shortening
    1/2 ts Salt
    1/2 c  Milk
      3 c  Confectioners' sugar
 
  Heat oven to 350 F.  Grease and flour three 9-inch cake pans. Set
  aside.
  
  Sift together flour, baking powder, soda, salt, cloves, nutmeg and
  cinnamon; set aside.
  
  Cream shortening until light and fluffy.  Slowly add sugar. Beat until
  creamy.  Add eggs 1 at a time, blending after each addition.
  
  Combine milk and vanilla.  By hand, stir into creamed mixture
  alternately with the dry ingredients, starting and ending with the
  dry. Blend thoroughly after each addition. Add mincemeat and nuts.
  Stir to blend.
  
  Pour into prepared pans.  Bake at 350 F. for 35 minutes or until a
  toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Remove from oven.
  Invert pans onto cooling racks. Leave for 10 minutes. Remove cake
  from pans; cool completely.  Frost with caramel or your favorite
  frosting.
  
  To make caramel frosting: In a saucepan, combine brown sugar, butter,
  shortening and salt.  Bring to boil, stirring constantly. Slowly add
  milk. Bring back to boil and cook 3 minutes. Cool slightly. Add
  confectioners' sugar.  Beat until creamy and of spreading consistency.
  
  Colombo writes: "This mincemeat cake is one of our family favorites."
  
  From Alice Colombo's 09/21/94 "Cook's Corner" column in "The
  (Louisville, KY) Courier-Journal."  Pg. C6. Posted by Cathy Harned.
 
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