Put the butter in pieces and the sugar in a bowl.

Work everything well, it should become like a cream.

Add the 8 yolks and mix well.

Add the flour, the starch flour, the baking powder, and the Maraschino liqueur.

Mix very well to obtain a homogeneous mixture.

Whip the egg whites until stiff and add them, slowly, to the mixture.

Add the pineapple and the dehydrated and chopped apricots and mix everything together delicately.

Butter and flour a donut mold and pour the mixture into it.

Bake it at 180°C for about 50 minutes.

When it is ready, remove it from the oven, let it cool and then turn it out onto a serving plate.

Spring it with icing sugar.

The Donizetti cake is ready.