Velvet Lunch Cupcakes

• 1 cup sugar
• 12 cup shortening
• 1 egg (not beaten)
• 3 tablespoons molasses
• 1 cup sour milk
• 1 cup seedless raisin
• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 34 teaspoon nutmeg
• 12 teaspoon ground cloves

1. Cream sugar and shortening.
2. Add egg, molasses.
3. sour milk and raisins.
4. Sift together flour, soda, salt and spices.
5. Add to first mixture.
6. Bake in cupcake pan for 20 minutes at 350F.
7. * To make sweet milk sour, mix 2 tablespoons vinegar into sweet milk.

sugar, shortening, egg, molasses, sour milk, seedless raisin, flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ground cloves

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/velvet-lunch-cupcakes-153190 (may not work)