Sugarless, Butterless, Eggless Cake
(a healthier cake found in a favorite cookbook)
2 cups raisins
2 cups water
1 cup dates
1 orange, chopped, including peel
½ cup olive, or sunflower oil
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 ¼ cups whole wheat flour
½ cup walnuts
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
Combine raisins, water, dates, orange, oil, cinnamon, vanilla, and nutmeg, then boil for 10 minutes. Let cool. Preheat oven to 300oF. In a separate bowl, combine flour, nuts, baking soda and baking powder. Add the flour mixture to the fruit mixture, and stir just enough to moisten ingredients. Place the batter in a greased 10” tube pan. Bake 60 minutes.
Yield: about 16 pieces.
This recipe is from a Bed-n-Breakfast, Lake Crescent Inn in Robert’s Arm, Newfoundland. Very good dessert or snack. I have made this for a gift for people on special diets, as well. Recipe is not too fussy; have added crystallized ginger, an over-ripe banana, pecans instead. Used dates instead of raisins; very versatile. I first made this recipe in November of 2000. Don't tell them it is healthy; they will enjoy it more!