Recipe for cooking fresca cake with maraschino icing

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Fresca Cake with Maraschino Icing

Servings: 8

3 c. sugar
1/2 lb. butter
1/2 c. vegetable shortening
6 lrg. eggs
3 c. cake flour, sifted
7 oz. Fresca soda pop
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla extract or flavoring
1 tsp. grated lemon rind
1 tsp. grated lime rind

Maraschino Icing
2 lrg. egg whites
1 c. sugar
1 tsp. water
2 tsp. maraschino cherry juice
1 tsp. light corn syrup
1/4 tsp. cream of tartar
10 maraschino cherries, chopped

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 13 x 9-in. cake pan.

Cream together sugar, butter and shortening. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add flour and Fresca alternately. Add baking powder and when mixture is fully creamed, add vanilla extract or flavoring and grated lemon and lime rinds. Pour into greased pan. Bake 1 hour or until cake tester comes out clean.

Maraschino Icing: Mix all ingredients except cherries and beat constantly while heating in the top of a double boiler. When thoroughly mixed, thick, and spreadable, frost cake. Decorate top of cake with chopped maraschino cherries.

NOTE: Since Fresca is available only in limited areas if at all, 7-up may be a good substitution, or any lemon-lime drink. Also, since the problem with the cherries has been resolved with a different food coloring, you may use the new ones or use gum drops instead for the garnish. Syrup from a can of dark cherries might be substituted for the maraschino cherry syrup.