Recipes from Aunt Flora -- Coffee Raisin Spice Cake

Coffee Raisin Spice Cake

½ cup shortening
¾ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon cloves
½ teaspoon all spice
½ teaspoon nutmeg

1 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

2 cup flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder

¾ cup sour milk*

Blend shortening, salt and spices.
Add brown sugar. Cream well.
Add eggs and beat.
Sift flour, baking soda and baking powder together.
Add flour and sour milk, alternating (to sugar/shortening/spice mix.)
Bake in greased pans 10x10x2 at 350 degrees for 40-50 minutes.

*To make sour milk:

For each cup of sour milk, place 1 tablespoon lemon juice or vinegar in a glass measuring cup. Add enough milk to make 1 cup total liquid; stir. Let the mixture stand 5 minutes before using.

In an example of what happens if you don’t read the entire page, you miss the frosting that was supposed to accompany this cake. I was initially confused because it’s called Coffee Raisin Spice Cake and there were no raisins in it, so I added chopped walnuts and raisins to the batter.

For a frosting, I sprinkled butterscotch and white chocolate chips on the cake once I removed it from the oven and then spread them around once they softened.

HAD I read the whole sheet, I would have seen this icing recipe which is what was SUPPOSED to be on this cake.

1 tablespoon shortening
1 tablespoon margarine
2 cups powdered sugar
2 tablespoons hot coffee
½ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon scalded milk
¼ cup ground raisins.

In retrospect, it’s probably just as well I didn’t make the frosting. The container came back from the IT boys empty, so someone did something with it. I had a piece or two for Sunday breakfast and aside from being a bit dry for me, it was fine.