Cooking advice

Buy Local Food : With local food you'll get exceptional taste and freshness, strengthen your local economy, support endangered family farms, safeguard your family's health, and protect the environment.


Kitchen Tip : Using a pressure cooker saves up to two-thirds of the cooking time, saves energy, and preserves the goodness in your food.


Buy Local Food : Bringing more local produce into your kitchen may leave you wondering what to do with unusual things such as Jerusalem artichokes, kohlrabi or mizuna. “I get requests all the time from CSAs asking permission to put my recipes into their delivery boxes,” Madison says. “I always say yes.” Get a good produce-based cookbook and don’t be reluctant to ask for recipe ideas from growers.














Chocolate Raisin Snacking Cake Recipe

Chocolate Raisin Snacking Cake Category Appetizer Recipes 
Views 153 
Ratings
Ingredients And Procedures

3/4 c Raisins

1 c Water

1 1/4 c Granulated Sugar

2/3 c Vegetable Oil

1 lg Egg, Slightly Beaten

1 3/4 c Unbleached All Purpose Flour

1/3 c Cocoa

1 ts Baking Soda

1/2 ts Salt

1/4 ts Ground Cinnamon

1/2 c Chopped Nuts

----------------------------------GARNISH---------------------------------- Confectioners' Sugar Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 13 X 9 X 2-inch baking pan. In a medium saucepan, bring the raisins and water to a boil and simmer for 1 minute. Remove from the heat and cool slightly. Stir in the granulated sugar and oil. Add the egg. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda, salt and cinnamon, then stir the mixture into the raisin mixture, blending well. Stir in the nuts. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Place on a wire rack to cool in the pan. When cool, sprinkle with the confectioners' sugar. If you like a design, use a paper table doily as a stencil when sprinkling the sugar over the cake.

 
Rate this recipe!
1   2   3  4   5  
 
Post this recipe to your site




Search Recipe Database: