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Man's Birthday Cake - An Easy Family Recipe
Passed Down from Generation to Generation
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For the past several reviews I've shared family favorite recipes and today I'd like to share another.
Some people love to cook or bake, however, I'm not one of them. Don't get me wrong, I can cook; it's just that it's not my favorite thing to do. Because of that, I tend to stick with recipes I'm used to and that have been proven from generation to generation.
Most of us have favorite go-to recipes that we whip up when we need something quick. Here are my previous family baking favorites:
- One-Bowl Chocolate Cake
- Homemade Chocolate Icing
- Easy Banana Loaf
In the chocolate cake recipe, you'll notice that the ingredients are very basic, but I point out which ingredient I believe makes the cake taste so good. Be sure to check it out.
A Man's Birthday Cake - What Is It?
Man's Birthday Cake is a raisin spice cake. I suspect the name of the cake was given generations ago because that's what we've always called it. The men in our family do like it, but so do the kids and women!
This recipe comes from my maternal grandmother's family, is a family favorite, and is simple to make.
What's Different About This Cake?
Like the banana loaf featured above, this recipe doesn't use milk. This raisin spice cake is made with raisin water instead.
Man's Birthday Cake Ingredients & Instructions
1 Cup of Raisins
2 Cups of Water, Keep the Water
1/2 Cup of Butter
1 Cup of Sugar
1 Egg
1 and 3/4 Cups of Flour
1 Teaspoon of Baking Soda
1/2 Teaspoon of Salt
1 Teaspoon of Cloves
1 Teaspoon of Allspice
1 Teaspoon of Cinnamon
Boil the raisins in two cups of water. Keep the water. (Note: Bring it to a boil and let it boil for five or six minutes).
Mix the butter, sugar, and egg in a medium-sized bowl. Once mixed, add the raisins and water. Give it a stir to blend it all together. It's ok if the water and raisins are hot.
In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking soda, salt, cloves, allspice, and cinnamon.
Then combine the two bowls of ingredients together. Stir until blended.
Place the cake mix into an ungreased baking dish (9 by 13). It will be a thin-looking batter and may seem like there's not much for such a large pan. However, when you use a pan this size, you can cut it into nice bite-sized squares for individual serving if you prefer.
You can use other sized pans of course.
Bake at 375 degrees for 20 to 40 minutes depending upon your oven. Check it after 20 minutes, if it's still not done, leave it for another 10 minutes. Keep doing that until it's fully baked. In my oven, it cooks in 20(ish) minutes.
When it cools I cut it up into squares and stack the squares in a covered cake dish for the family to grab and go.
I rarely ice this cake, however, my grandmother used to top it with a cream cheese icing. Yum. If you decide to ice the cake, of course, you know you need to let the cake completely cool first.
By the way, without icing this is a delicious cake, when hot, with a bit of butter melting on it. Yum.
If you're making it as a birthday cake, you'll want to put the icing on it.
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