Alabama Newscenter — Recipe: Vintage Lemon Apricot Nectar Cake

By Stacey Little
Southern Bite

After I posted my Pineapple Juice Cake a few years back, I had tons of comments, messages and emails from folks saying that it reminded them of an apricot nectar cake their mother or grandmother used to make. I mentioned it to my own mother, who said she, in fact, remembered my grandmother making one. So I set out to find this apricot nectar deliciousness in my collection of old cookbooks. And I found it.

I read a post on a site that said Duncan Hines originally introduced the recipe when it launched lemon cake mix years ago, but I can’t verify that. The crazy thing about it is that when I tested this recipe with a Duncan Hines mix, the middle fell every single time, much like it does when folks use Duncan Hines cake mixes with that Pineapple Juice Cake recipe. So, as much as I love Duncan Hines mixes, I have to recommend another brand for this recipe. I’ve tested it extensively after folks reported problems with that recipe and it seems that the amount of oil in the recipe is the culprit.

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