This is everyone's holiday favorite, even the busy cook's, because it is so easy to make.
Author: Charles
A not too sweet cake packed with raisins. Perfect with coffee or tea and a wonderful departure from the typically sweet holiday goodies.
Author: Nancy W. Markey
This is a great cake for any sweet tooth. It is good served hot too.
Author: Pam Haycraft
Serve warm with ice cream, frosted with cream cheese, or all by its lonesome. This cake is always a treat.
Author: Robin
This is the recipe that I like to use with the fresh pears that I get from my trees in late August. It's also lower in fat and cholesterol than most regular cakes.
Author: Barbara
This is a very good and moist cake recipe I received from my grandmother years ago. It makes a nice addition to any dinner table.
Author: Shirley
This cake is the best cinnamon cake I have ever made. Every time I serve it, the compliments never end. Serve it warm, about 45 minutes out of the oven, for an even greater pleasure.
Author: Leta Harris
I know, I know - tomato soup is an odd ingredient for a cake. But try it! Sort of spicy and sooo yummy. People will NEVER guess what the main ingredient is.
Author: Debbie Budd
War Cake uses ingredients that were available to the average household during World War II. Great served with whipped topping!
Author: Stephanie
This is a spice type cake. It is from the depression era or war time rationing.
Author: Kathy Thurston
Three spiced layers with pecans and pear preserves, and decorated with caramel frosting.
Author: NELL 2
A spicy fragrant Bundt cake with a hint of orange. This is delicious served with a hot cup of tea. When other types of jam are added in place of the marmalade, it's then called a jam cake.
Author: Denise Fox
This is a moist, spice-type cake...a good way to use some of those extra green tomatoes before frost hits. Sprinkle the finished cake with confectioners' sugar or frost with your favorite caramel or cream...
Author: Glenda
In about 1968, we moved next door to a family with seven little boys. Their mother gave me this recipe. It is really delicious. You can frost it, or just eat it like it is.
Author: Betty
Nice, old-fashioned cake. The recipe was given to me by my favorite aunt.
Author: GINGER P
This eggless loaf is very dense and moist. It originated during World War II, when eggs, milk and butter were in short supply.
Author: Terry
This carrot cake is worth its weight in gold! It always gets compliments!
Author: Stacy
This cake is for those of you who have allergies. When my kids were small they developed an allergy against all dairy products, and then gradually outgrew them.
Author: Carol
Grandma was about the best baker I've ever known. This is the cake she brought to every picnic or family reunion. It can't be beat.
Author: Cheryl King
Who doesn't love cinnamon rolls? Who doesn't love cupcakes? Well, that's what I thought.
Author: kphanie
This rich holiday dessert was invented by my grandmother and is a tradition in our house over Christmas. These ingredients were originally the authentic thing -- homemade jam, buttermilk out of the churn,...
Author: Amy
This recipe for a chocolate version of spice cake is very moist and features prominent clove and cinnamon flavors.
Author: Maura
Incredibly moist cake is also great for muffins. Very light-it will disappear very quickly.
Author: Carol Farrington
Blackberry jam is folded into the batter of this bundt cake. After baking the cake is given a confectioners' sugar glaze.
Author: Barbara
Everyone tells me this is the best carrot cake ever! Frost with your favorite Cream Cheese Frosting.
Author: Michele
The gumdrop cake has been a holiday tradition in our family for almost 4 generations. The recipe has been adapted and changed over the years; this one is my favorite.
Author: twobears
This is a dark cake, moist and spicy with raisins. It is also known as Wartime Cake.
Author: Jan Wood
This was my mother's, it has sugar, but no eggs, no butter and no milk. It's from the Depression-era.
Author: Lynn-Pgh
A chewy bar cake made with raisins. I remember my Mother making this every week for us six children.
Author: Janice
This is a popular recipe along the eastern seaboard where maple syrup runs in March.
Author: Carol
This recipe for spice cake with raisins is simply good with a cream cheese frosting.
Author: Winona
The exotic Asian flavor will surprise everyone's taste buds. I tried a similar cake when I was living in the US. It is definitely an interesting use of the Chinese five-spice! I make this cake based on...
Author: Jiji. Wanderlust
This cake comes in handy when all you have left in the cupboard is the tin soups just before shopping day. It really was a treat served warm when we came in from the cold. And it was c-o-l-l-l-d-d-d, North...
Author: Bernadette Beaupre
This recipe has been in my family for years. My grandmother always baked it for Christmas and now I do the same. Frost with Cream Cheese Frosting.
Author: Jo Ann Herrington
If you like to mix your breakfast sausage with your pancakes and syrup, you'll want to try this spice cake with sausage and coffee.
Author: LMDINCO
Quick and easy cake topped with cinnamon sugar. Quite good for breakfast.
Author: Indira
This is a substantial yet tender spice cake that's flavorful enough to serve unadorned. For my gingerbread variation, consider bringing along a jar of lemon curd.
Author: Ben S.
Mashed potatoes give this chocolate spice cake a wonderful texture.
Author: Barbara
A moist and flavorful recipe that makes a large quantity of cake. I have been hounded to make this cake time and time again.
Author: Nan
Tomato sauce is the secret special ingredient in this easy recipe for a spice cake packed with walnuts and raisins.
Author: SHERRI LEIGH
A moist coffee cake with a fine, cake-like texture and swirls of cinnamon sugar. Excellent for brunches or a snack.
Author: MISSHEPESHU
This gingerbread differs from our own North American one although both have European origins.
Author: Carol
There is more to sweet potatoes than toasted marshmallows! This cake has amazing flavor and options are endless to change up the recipe. For frosting, use your favorite, such as cream cheese, butter cream,...
Author: Pamela J Hagen-French
This is an old recipe. To serve, break the cake apart with two forks.
Author: MARBALET