Lenten Cake Recipe

Lenten Cake Recipe

Ingredients

• recipe for: Keik Nistsimo Lenten Cake
• Serving Size : 1
• 3 1/2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 3/4 cup oil
• 1/2 cup white raisins
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
• 2 teaspoons grated orange peel
• 1/2 cup cognac
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 cups orange juice
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• cinnamon for sprinkling
• 10 sugar

Method

1. Sift flour into ceramic bowl and mix the baking powder; scoop out a well in center.
2. Heat oil in frying pan and pour into the flour.
3. Add raisins, sugar, nuts, orange peel, cognac, baking soda dissolved in the orange juice, and cinnamon.
4. Mix to make a stiff dough.
5. Put into a buttered tube pan or baking pan and bake in preheated 300 F oven for about 1 hour.
6. As soon as you remove it from the oven, sprinkle with the cinnamon and confectioner’s sugar.

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