Very moist spicy sweet cake with chunks of tender apples and raisins.
Ingredients
- all-purpose flour: 2 cups
- ground cinnamon: 1 tsp
- ground nutmeg: 1 tsp
- ground allspice: 1 tsp
- salt: 0.5 tsp
- butter: 1 cup (softened)
- white sugar: 2 cups
- eggs: 4 piece
- baking soda: 1 tsp
- warm water: 1 Tbsp
- vanilla extract: 1 tsp
- apples: 3 piece (chopped)
- raisins: 0.5 cup
- confectioners' sugar for dusting: 0.25 cup
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Stages of cooking
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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.
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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.
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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.
