Best 6 Old Fashioned Raisin Cake Recipes

OLD-FASHIONED RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• In a food processor, combine the orange, raisins and pecans. Cover and process until mixture is finely chopped; set aside. , In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla until well blended. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition. Stir in orange mixture. , Pour into a greased and floured 10-in. flouted tube pan. Bake at 325° for 45-55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely., In a small bowl, combine glaze ingredients until smooth; drizzle over warm cake.

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 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.

OLD FASHIONED BOILED SULTANA (RAISIN) CAKE

Steps:

• In a pot, over the sultanas with water and boil for 7 minutes.
• Drain the sultanas well, but keep them in the pot.
• Add cubed butter and stir until the butter is melted.
• In a bowl, beal the eggs and sugar until thick.
• Add the flour, powder and vanilla.
• Pour the fruit mix into the flour mix and fold to combine.
• Bake in a greased and lined large sqaure cake tin.
• Bake at 175oC for 1 1/2 hours, check after 1 1/4 minutes.
• Do not ice/frost.
• Serve warm with butter.

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.

APPLESAUCE RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13 inch pan. Mix together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the applesauce. Fold in the walnuts and raisins. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 40 to 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool.