Grandmother'S Japanese Fruitcake

• 1/2 cup margarine
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2/3 cup butter milk
• 2 cups self rising flour
• 1/2 cup McCormicks cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp cloves
• 1 cup blackberry (or other fruit) jam or preserves
• 1 cup pecan halves
• 2/3 cups pet milk
• 1 stick margarine
• 1 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 cups coconut

1. Cream 1/2 cup margarine with brown sugar. Add 2 eggs and buttermilk and beat.
2. Sift together flour, cinnamon, cloves, and add to the sugar mixture.
3. Add the fruit (jam, preserves)
4. Cook 25 to 30 minutes in prepared cake pans.
5. Icing: top cake with pecan halves. Mix the pet milk, stick of margaine, 1 1/2 cups sugar, vanilla and cocnut - spread over cake

margarine, brown sugar, eggs, butter milk, flour, mccormicks cinnamon, cloves, blackberry, pecan halves, milk, margarine, sugar, vanilla, coconut

Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/grandmothers-japanese-fruitcake-1211146 (may not work)