Raisin cake

This is just the kind of gingerbread you crave when dinnertime has suddenly become pitch-black and cold, as it now has, and you feel like it’s midnight all the time and like you’re up in Scotland drinking whiskey from the bottle and waiting for spring. It’s big, soft, and comforting, like the down comforter of the cake world, and it fills your house with the spicy, delicious smell of holiday baking, even on a regular old school night. Plus, it will take you no more than 10 minutes to get it…

A vintage Depression-Era snack cake made with raisins, molasses and cozy spices without any eggs, milk or butter that’s super moist and perfectly sweet. JUMP TO RECIPE Husband often waxes poetic about

A simple, moist and delicious cake made with raisins, walnuts and applesauce.

Rum Raisin Cake - here's a delicious taste of the Caribbean with a rum soaked raisins baked into a vanilla cake, then soaked in more rum. Enjoy it plain r dress it up with a caramel filling and rum buttercream frosting.

This Raisin Cake recipe is straight from my grandma’s recipe tin. It’s a slightly spiced bundt cake perfect for dessert or breakfast.

Grandma’s Raisin Cake Recipe Ok, so this may not be the most healthy recipe for you. But, it is one that has been in my family for many years and is enjoyed by all. It does not get made often, and still, is never made as well as my grandmother made it. But I feltContinue Reading...

The best part about this cake is the Rum…ahem. If you don’t have any on stand by, you can use fortified wines like Marsala, Sherry, Port or Madeira. The frosting is optional but it make…

A deliciously moist cake with raisins and a simple frosting. Best made ahead of time to let the flavors develop.

Grandma's Poor Man's Cake - This is a delicious and easy vintage poor man's cake recipe made with simple pantry ingredients and no eggs. Easy and delicious.

Our mother finds the most interesting recipes when she is reading. This one was in the novel "Friends And Family" by Susan Page Davis. It is, as the name suggests, a cake from the depression era that does not use any eggs, butter, or milk. It is dense and spicy, almost like a fruit cake, except different. See.... I don't like fruit cake but I like this cake. I find it to be like a dense spice cake with raisins. Apparently I need to start reading more books. Who knew? Depression Era Cake…