Almond-Coffee Cake
- 2 cups flour
- 2 12 teaspoons baking powder
- 34 teaspoon salt
- 14 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 14 teaspoon ground mace
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 23 cup granulated sugar
- 13 cup butter or 13 cup margarine, softened
- 12 cup milk
- 12 cup chopped raisins
- 12 teaspoon grated lemon, rind of
- 12 cup slivered almonds
- light corn syrup
- Heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease 9-inch layer cake pan.
- In medium bowl, stir flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and mace.
- In large bowl with electric mixer, beat eggs, sugar and butter until blended.
- Stir in half of flour mixture.
- Stir in milk, raisins, lemon peel and 1/4 cup almonds.
- Add remaining flour mixture and beat for 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally.
- Pour into prepared pan.
- Sprinkle remaining 1/4 cup almonds decoratively around edge of batter.
- Bake for 30-40 minutes or until cake tester inserted comes out clean.
- Cool in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes.
- Remove cake from pan and cool completely on wire rack.
- While warm, lightly brush top with corn syrup.
flour, baking powder, salt, ground nutmeg, ground mace, eggs, sugar, butter, milk, raisins, almonds, light corn syrup
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/almond-coffee-cake-43489 (may not work)