Description
Very moist spicy sweet cake with chunks of tender apples and raisins.
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon ground allspice
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2 cups white sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 tablespoon warm water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 apples – peeled, cored and chopped
- ½ cup raisins
- ¼ cup confectioners’ sugar for dusting
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter a 10 inch tube pan. Cover raisins with warm water
- let soak for 10 minutes and then drain. Whisk together flour
- spices
- and salt. Set aside.
- Cream together butter or margarine and sugar. Mix in eggs and vanilla. Stir together soda and 1 tablespoon warm water
- and mix into the sugar mixture. Stir in flour mixture
- apples
- and strained raisins until well blended. Pour batter into prepared pan.
- Bake for approximately 1 hour
- or until a tester comes out clean. Cool in pan. Once cool
- shake pan to loosen cake. Turn onto plate
- and dust with confectioners’ sugar.
Servings: 14