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Ingredients
| sherry (wine): 3/4 cup |
| seedless raisins (packed): 2 cups |
| oranges: 1 |
| walnuts (chopped): 4 cups |
| all-purpose flour (unsifted): 4 cups |
| baking powder: 2 tsp |
| salt: 1/2 tsp |
| whole nutmeg: 1 tsp |
| eggs: 6 |
| salted butter: 1 cup |
| granulated sugar: 2 cups |
| molasses: 1/2 cup |
| vanilla extract: 1 tsp |
Holiday Walnut Cake
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Prep Time
0 min -
Cook Time
120 min -
Servings
1 serving(s)
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- Grease 10" tube pan.
- Cut wax paper to fit bottom of pan, insert, grease and flour.
- Pour sherry on raisins.
- Heat oven to 275.
- Chop walnuts, grate orange and squeeze juice from orange.
- Sift flour with baking powder, salt and nutmeg, save 1/4 c of flour for nuts & raisins.
- Beat eggs until thick.
- Cream butter and sugar add in beaten eggs.
- Drain raisins (reserving liquid) and combine with nuts and the 1/4 c flour.
- Add juice of orange & sherry alternately with dry ingredients, combine all with the creamed butter/sugar/egg mixture and stir in vanilla.
- Add floured nuts and raisins last.
- Bake for 2 hours.
- Cool thoroughly before removing from tube pan.