Rebecca Sharpless in her book Grain and Fire: A History of Baking in the American South (2022) says the apricot cake came from Lafayette, Louisiana. A 1999 newspaper article agrees with that sentiment when they wrote: “Recipes for apricot nectar cake have probably been around just about as long as boxed cake mix.” Cake mixes were first invented in the 1930s but really did not get popular until some time in the 1950s. It is pretty connected to box cake mixes and especially the Duncan Hines Lemon Supreme. Who and where was Apricot Nectar Cake created? A glaze of confectioners sugar and lemon juice is poured on the cake while it is still hot and adds to the tart-sweet flavor that the apricot nectar gives it”. So what does the apricot nectar add to the mix? A 1963 Dothan, Alabama newspaper explained it perfectly: “The cake is baked in a tube pan and uses a prepared yellow cake mix. This usually has an apricot filling and is frosted. A three-layer cake made from scratch that uses apricot nectar in place of the liquid in the cake.It is baked in tube pan and topped with a lemon glaze as well. Then the egg whites are beaten to stiff peaks and folded into the batter. Sometimes the recipe will separate the egg yolks from the egg whites. A variation of the box cake recipe above.Sometimes the recipe will poke holes into the cake before pouring the glaze. A few used the apricot nectar to make a glaze. This is baked in a tube or Bundt pan and is topped with a lemon glaze while the cake is still warm. Usually, the recipe adds either (though sometimes a combination) lemon extract, lemon zest, or a box of lemon gelatin to the mix. A box cake mix, usually the Duncan Hines Lemon Supreme flavor, where the apricot nectar replaces the water in the mix.There are three versions that I found these recipes can fall into: That last one seemed to be a catchall for a lot of cakes that used the Lemon Supreme box cake mix. Though I have found the recipe under other names such as Glorified Cake Mix, Apricot Lemon Jell-O Cake, and even Lemon Supreme Cake. Most of the time the cake is called Apricot Nectar Cake. What ingredients are in Apricot Nectar Cake? Well that sent my spidey senses a tingling and off down the rabbit hole I gladly went! Actually, I only came to know about Apricot Nectar Cake in an old 1960s article that mentions a popular cake recipe from a few years back made with nectar. This is another cake that I did not grow up with nor did either of my parents.
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