When I was coming up my mother and aunts made Japanese fruit cakes( think layered fruit cake with one spice cake layer and two white layers fruit cake is in the filling between layers), Lane cake, and Nut cake (think fruit cake with a little more cake between the fruit. I have started making the Nut cake and have made the Lane cake. After the nut cake is cooked and cooled cover the top with several layers of cheese cloth and dampen the cloth with sherry daily for several days. I am tee=aching my daughters too make it, I am the last one in the family that knows how.