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ELLEN'S KITCHEN
Honey Cakes
Four cakes made with oil and honey for special occasions. Tube pans are good for honey cakes because they help them cook evenly.
Wherever flour is called for, use whole wheat pastry flour or unbleached all-purpose flour.
Golden Secret Carrot Cake
A long time Thanksgiving favorite. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a large tube
pan.
- Beat together:
- 2/3 C salad oil
- 1/2 - 2/3 C honey
- 4 eggs yolks
- Add and beat:
- 2 C w.w. pastry flour
- 2 t baking powder
- 1 t cinnamon
- Add and beat:
- 1 t vanilla
- 1 t black walnut extract (this is the secret ingredient, and it is scrumptious)(almond is good, too)
- Fold in:
- 1 C chopped walnuts--preferrably black walnuts(or almonds)
- 3 large carrots, grated (about 2 C)
- Then fold in:
- 4 stiffly beaten egg whites
Spread this thick batter in a tube pan. Bake at 350 degrees about 1 hour 10 minutes in an oiled
and floured large tube pan. Cools best if you put the pan on a rack. Let cool before removing
from pan.
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Oatmeal Cake with broiled icing
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Total cooking time is about 40 minutes, but you have to take it out
and spread the icing on it before it is done. Oil and flour a 9 x 13 flat pan.
- Soak together and beat until creamy:
- 1 C boiling water
- 1 C quick oats
- Set aside. Mix together:
- 1 1/2 C honey
- 1/2 C oil
- When thoroughly blended, beat in 1 at a time:
- 2 eggs
- 1 t vanilla
- Sift together:
- 1 C whole wheat flour
- 1 t soda
- 1/2 t salt
- 1/2 t nutmeg
- 1/2 t cinnamon
Add oats to honey mix, then stir in flour, and bake 25 minutes in an oiled and floured 9"x13"
pan.
- While it's baking, mix:
- 1 stick soft butter
- 1/2 C honey
- 1 C nuts
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 C coconut (optional)
- milk to spreadable thickness
Spread on cake, bake another 10 to 15 minutes to finish.
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Preheat oven to 375 degrees
- Sift together:
- 1 3/4 C w.w. pastry flour
- 1/3 C soy flour
- 1/4 C milk powder
- 4 t baking powder
- 1 t salt
- 1 1/2 T cinnamon
- 2 t clove
- 1 t ginger
- Stir in:
- 1/2 C wheat germ
- Mix together:
- 2/3 C honey
- 1/3 C oil
- 4 well-beaten eggs
- 1 3/4 C applesauce or crushed pineapple
Stir the liquid into the dry ingredients. Bake in an oiled, floured loaf pan about 1 hour.
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Oil and flour a tube pan. The original of this great cake came out
of Nebraska in the Depression years.
- Soak in a saucepan:
- 1 C raisins
- With water to 1/2" above their top, bring to a boil and cook till water is level with raisins.
- Add:
- 3/4 C oil
- Cool mix. Add:
- 1 C honey
- 2 t cinnamon
- 2 t soda
- 1 t salt
- 2 eggs, beaten
- Mix together and stir in:
- 3 C whole wheat flour
- 2 t baking powder
- 2 T soy flour
- 2 T wheat germ
Mix well. Bake in a 9"x13" pan or a large tube pan about 45-55 minutes.
A double recipe takes a 13"x20" pan.
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Hint: Cakes will be smoother across the top if you push the batter well up the sides of the pan
and level it in the middle.
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