Friendship Cake-Amish

• 1 cup butter melted
• 1 3/4 cups sugar
• 3 cups flour, unbleached all-purpose
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon ground
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon cloves ground
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg ground
• 2 large eggs
• 2 cups Brandied fruit
• 1 cup pecans chopped
• 1/4 cup fruit juice brandied
• 15 1/2 ounces pineapple chunks
• 16 ounces peaches sliced
• 17 ounces apricot halves, canned
• 10 ounces maraschino cherries
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1 1/4 cups brandy

1. Combine butter and sugar in large mixing bowl.
2. Beat well.
3. Combine next 6 ingredients.
4. Beat well.
5. Add eggs.
6. Coarse chop brandied fruit and stir into batter.
7. Add pecans and juice.
8. Mix well.
9. Pour batter into well-greased 10 inch bundt pan.
10. Bake at 350F (180C).
11. oven for 1 hour.
12. Cool in pan 10 minutes, then remove from pan.
13. BRANDIED FRUIT STARTER: Drain all canned fruit.
14. Combine all ingredients in clean, nonmettalic bowl.
15. Stir gently.
16. Cover and let stand at room temperature for 3 weeks, stirring twice per week.
17. As you use it, replace the amount taken with 1 cup sugar.
18. Cover and let stand at room temperature 3 days before using again.
19. Yields 6 cups of brandied fruit.

butter, sugar, flour, baking soda, cinnamon ground, salt, cloves ground, nutmeg ground, eggs, brandied fruit, pecans, fruit juice brandied, pineapple, peaches, apricot, maraschino cherries, sugar, brandy

Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/friendship-cake-amish-47671 (may not work)