Tornado Cake

Tornado Cake 1 ½ cups sugar 2 eggs 2 cups Gold Medal UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour (bleached flour toughens baked goods) 1 cup chopped nuts 2 cups fruit cocktail with syrup (16-oz. can) 2 tsp. baking soda ¼ cup brown sugar For the icing: 1/2 cup butter 1 cup coconut ¾ cup brown sugar ½ cup evaporated milk or half-and-half It really is a simple recipe, too. Mix up the five-ingredient batter, dump it, put the brown sugar and nuts over that, and bake at 325 F for 40 minutes. Then you spread on the icing, which itself takes mere minutes to cook, while everything is still hot. It’s an easy and low-budget option, but it certainly doesn’t taste like it.