Best 6 Boiled Raisin Cake I Recipes

OLD-FASHIONED BOILED RAISIN CAKE WITH BROWN SUGAR FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a medium saucepan, mix together water, brown sugar, raisins, butter, and cocoa. Bring to a boil, and let simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from heat, and let cool.
• In a separate bowl, mix together, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and ground cloves.
• Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, and stir until completely incorporated.
• Pour into a 13x9 inch glass dish or cake pan that has been generously sprayed with non-stick cooking spray.
• Bake for 35 minutes of until a toothpick comes out clean from the center of the cake.
• While cooling, prepare the Brown Sugar Frosting.
• In a medium sized saucepan, mix brown sugar, butter and milk. Heat until the sugar is dissolved, whisking constantly. Remove from heat and let cool completely.
• Once the sugar mixture is cooled, pour sugar mixture into a mixer bowl. Add powdered sugar and mix until a frosting is formed. If a runnier texture is desired, add milk 1 T. at a time until desired consistency.
• Frost the cake, and enjoy!

BOILED RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• In saucepan. place raisins, brown sugar, hot water, shortening, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.
• Bring mixture to boiling point, cover and let simmer for 6 minutes.
• Cool to lukewarm and add vanilla.
• Add soda to flour and mix.
• Combine flour and raisin mixture well.
• Bake in buttered 9X5" loaf pan in 325° oven for 1-1 1/4 hours. Cool in pan.
• This cake improves with keeping.
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• NOTE--It can be a challenge to find pastry flour. Even well-stocked supermarkets seldom carry more varieties than cake flour, all-purpose flour (9% to 12% protein), and bread flour. If you can't find pastry flour, you can mix your own by combining cake flour and all-purpose flour in a ratio somewhere between two parts cake flour to one part all-purpose and one part cake flour to one part all-purpose.

BOILED RAISIN CAKE I

Steps:

• Boil raisins in 2 cups of water for 15 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Add vegetable oil and cold water to the raisins.
• Mix sugar, flour, spices, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl.
• Add the raisin mixture, and stir till just mixed.
• Pour into a greased and floured 9 x 13 inch baking pan, and bake for one hour in a preheated 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) oven. It is done if a toothpick comes out clean.

GRANDMA'S BOILED RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• In a saucepan add raisins and water.
• Boil 15 minute.
• Drain keeping liquid.
• There should be 1 cup left over.
• If not add enough water to make 1 cup.
• Cool.
• Cream butter and sugar.
• Add egg and beat well.
• Add dry ingredients alternately with water.
• starting and ending with dry ingredients.
• Add vanilla and stir in raisins.
• Pour into greased 9"x11" or 9"x13" pan.
• Bake 350 for 30-35 minute.
• Icing:.
• Brown butter and brown sugar.
• Add water.
• Beat in icing sugar until spreading constituency.
• Ice with above recipe or dimple icing.

BOILED RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• Gently boil coffee, raisins, currants, orange peel, sugars, nutmeg, and butter over moderate heat, uncovered, in a 3-quart heavy saucepan, stirring occasionally, 5 minutes. Cool mixture to room temperature, stirring occasionally, about 1 hour.
• Put a small roasting pan filled halfway with hot water on rack in lowest position in oven (to provide moisture during baking). Put remaining oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F. Generously butter tube pan.
• Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl, then stir into raisin mixture until combined well. Spoon batter into tube pan and smooth top. Bake in middle of oven until a wooden pick or skewer inserted in center of cake comes out clean, about 1 1/2 hours.
• Cool cake completely in pan on a rack, about 2 1/2 hours, then turn out onto a serving plate.
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BOILED RAISIN CAKE II

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour one 7x7 inch square baking pan.
• Boil sugar, raisins, butter, and the water until the raisins absorb most of the water and are quite soggy and mushy. Set aside and let cool completely.
• Sift the flour, cinnamon, and the baking powder together. Stir the flour mixture into the raisin mixture and mix until just combined. Spread the batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 40 to 45 minutes or until cake springs back upon the touch. Immediately put on a wire rack to cool. This is a very soft cake, liable to break easily. Take care when you cut the cake.