Aunt Suzie's Oh So Good Cake

Cake:
1-1/2 cups sugar
2 cups self-rising flour
1 (17-oz) can fruit cocktail
2 slightly beaten eggs
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup flaked coconut
1 cup pecans

Glaze:
2/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup evaporated milk
1 stick butter
1 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 350^F.  Grease and flour a 9x13" pan.

Stir the sugar and flour together in a large bowl.  Add the fruit cocktail (juice and all) and the eggs and beat with an electric mixer for 2 minutes.  Pour into the prepared pan.

Combine the brown sugar, coconut and pecans.  Sprinkled over cake batter.

Bake at 350^ for about 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the cake comes out clean.

Meanwhile, in a small pan, combine the sugar, evaporated milk, and butter.  Bring to a boil and cook about 4 minutes or until it thickens.  Remove from the heat and stir in the vanilla until well mixed.

Remove the cake from the oven, and while still hot, pour the glaze over the cake.

Cool completely and serve.

This cake brings back so many happy memories of our summers in Jacksonville.  We'd spend the mornings at the beach, then, after a nap!, we'd play in the yard late in the afternoon while Daddy and Uncle Gene manned the grill.  Mom and Aunt Suzie would make the rest of our dinner in the kitchen and start the ice cream which we kids would take turns churning!

I called Aunt Suzie in 1977 for this recipe.  I wrote it on the back of a receipt from Lake Gas Co, which also brings back great memories.  Grandpa worked there for so long and he and Granny lived right on the property.  I spent so much time with them when I was growing up.