Old-Fashioned Raisin Cake

Old-Fashioned Raisin Cake
This Old Fashioned Raisin Cake & Walnut is a trip down memory lane, an old fashioned cake filled with warm spices, juicy raisins and crunchy walnuts. Raisin cake is the ultimate cake for tea, coffee and for our snack as a snack.
With its vintage charm and moist crumb, this old-fashioned raisin cake is a traditional recipe.
Its moist texture is a dream, striking the perfect balance between fluffy and firm. To finish off the baked raisin cake, you can keep it plain or sprinkle some powdered sugar on top.
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Old-Fashioned Raisin Cake

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Ingredients (∼10 slices)

  • 3 large or 4 small eggs
  • 200gr granulated sugar
  • 200gr milk
  • 200gr sunflower oil
  • 10gr baking powder
  • ½ tbsp. soda
  • 300gr cake flour
  • 150gr raisins
  • 100gr walnuts
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract+1 tsp. cinnamon+1 tsp. clove
With a hand mixer or in a stand mixer, beat the sugar with the eggs until they turn white and we have a fluffy mixture.
Always whisking, add the milk …
… and sunflower oil.
Continue adding the flour in 3 portions, sifted together with the baking powder and soda. Add the spices. Mix with a spatula.
Mix a spoonful of flour with the raisins and walnuts, so they won't sink and put them in the mixture.
Grease and flour a Ø 26cm cake mold and pour the beaten cake mixture inside.
Bake in a preheated oven fan oven at 180℃ 356℉ Gas Mark 4.2 (∼4) for 45′.
Old-Fashioned Raisin Cake
☛ Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack for at least an hour before slicing.
Old-Fashioned Raisin Cake

Author Zambia G. Sifaki