Butterless Dessert Cake Recipes

Steps:

• 1. Mix together the sugar, spices, water, lard and raisins in a saucepan. Bring to a boil for one minute, let cool. Add flour and baking soda and mix together well. Pour batter into greased and floured tube pan or loaf pan. Bake for one hour at 325F. To test for done, place a straw or a toothpick into the cake, if it comes out clean, then it is done. Remove from oven, let cool upside down until sides pull away from the pan.
• 2. Put Icing ingredients into small sauce pan. Bring to a boil for 3 minutes. When cooled. Ice cake. *** You can add lemon juice instead of water or add a little vanilla or almond flavoring.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease one 8 or 9 inch square cake pan.
• In a saucepan over medium high heat combine; the sugar, shortening, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, ground allspice, salt, raisins, and water bring to a boil and continue boiling for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool.
• Sift the flour, baking powder and baking soda together. Add the flour mixture to the cooled raisin mixture. Stir until just combined. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 20 minutes.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine all the dry ingredients together.
• Combine all the wet ingredients together in another bowl.
• Pour the liquid ingredients all at once into the dry ingredients, and beat until smooth.
• Pour batter into a greased 9 x 13 inch pan.
• Bake in a preheated 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) oven for 20-25 minutes. Let cool in pan. When cool sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.

Steps:

• Bring to a boil the first eight ingredients. Cool. Add remaining ingredients and mix together.
• Bake in an 8 x 8 pan at 350 degrees until a toothpick comes out clean. (Mom didn't write a time so I would start checking at 20 minutes but I'm guessing it would take 30-40 minutes to be done.) (It's a small cake so you don't have to worry about lots of leftovers!)
• Note: I haven't made this for quite a while and now I would try to make it healthier. I would use Splenda brown sugar. I would try using unsweetened applesauce or a fruit purée that is sold to replace fats in baking to replace all or part of the shortening. I would replace a good part of the flour with whole wheat, almond or soy flour. I have done all of these things in other recipes and the outcome was good so I have no reason to think that it wouldn't work for this one!

Steps:

• Combine the sugar, water, shortening, raisins, spices, and salt in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat, and stir while cooking for 3 minutes. Cool.
• Measure flour, soda, and baking powder, and sift together.
• Gradually stir dry ingredients into raisin mixture. Beat well. If an almond cake is desired, stir in almond extract and almonds. Pour batter into a greased 8 x 4 inch loaf pan.
• Bake at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) for about 1 hour.

Steps:

• Heat through the milk in a small plan until bubbling at edge. Preheat the oven to 180C.
• Sift flour with baking powder
• and salt. Set aside.
• In a small bowl, mix at high speed, eggs, until thick and lemon colored. Gradually add sugar, beating until mixture is smooth and well blended...about 5 min.
• At low speed, blend in flour mixture until smooth. Add warm milk and lemon peel, beating until combined. Immediately pour batter into ungreased, 9-inch cake pan.
• Bake 30 min, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Let cool completely. Then serve.