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     Title: APRICOT BRANDY CAKE
Categories: Liquor, Frostings, Cakes
     Yield: 12 Servings

     2 c  All purpose flour
 1-3/4 c  Sugar
     1 tb Baking powder
   1/2 ts Salt
     1 c  Vegetable oil
     2    Jars apricot baby food
     3    Eggs
     2 ts Vanilla
     1 ts Cinnamon
   1/2 ts Cloves
   1/2 c  Apricot preserves

------------------------BRANDY BUTTERCREAM FROSTING------------------------
     3 c  Powdered sugar
     3 tb Butter or margarine; soft
     2 tb Sour cream
     2 tb Brandy OR bourbon

 Preheat oven to 350°. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, oil, baby
 food, eggs, vanilla, cinnamon, and cloves in mixing bowl and beat at medium
 speed for 2 minutes. Pour into two greased and floured 8" round pans. Bake
 30 to 35 minutes, until toothpick inserted in center fomes out clean. Let
 cool in pans. Remove layers from pans and sandwich together with apricot
 preserves. Spread top and sides of cake with frosting.

  Brandy Buttercream Frosting: Combine all ingredients in mixing bowl and
 beat to spreading consistency.

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