Old Dominion Nut Cake Food

OLD DOMINION NUT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 275°F.
• Coat raisins and nuts with flour and set aside.
• Cream butter and sugar, then add eggs one at a time.
• Add molasses and spices, then add floured nuts and raisins.
• (Note: if not using raisins you may wish to add extra nuts) Last add whiskey and soda mixture.
• Bake in large bundt pan lined with waxed paper for 3 to 3 ½ hours over a pan of water set on the oven floor.
• Keeps for weeks wrapped in aluminum foil.
• For a Christmas cake that will last even longer wrap cake in cheesecloth dampened with Bourbon and then in foil and store in a cool place. Check Cheese cloth at least once a week and dampen again as needed.

OLD DOMINION CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325ºF and set oven rack in middle level.
• Butter and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan.
• Beat the butter with the sugar and vanilla until light; about 4 minutes.
• Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• In another bowl, combine the flour with the baking soda, 1 Tablespoon cocoa, cinnamon and salt and stir well to mix.
• Combine the hazelnuts and coconut and add a tablespoon of the flour mixture and rub between palms of hands to coat well.
• Add the flour mixture alternately with the sour cream to the butter and egg mixture, beginning and ending with the flour.
• Stir in the hazelnuts and coconut.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth top of batter.
• Bake the cake about 45 to 50 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center of the batter comes out clean.
• Cool on a rack for about 15 minutes, then invert a rack on the pan and invert to remove the cake.
• Finish cooling completely at room temperature.
• Mix the 1 cup of Confectioners sugar with the Frangelico Hazelnut Liqueur or almond extract and enough water to make an icing that can be drizzled on the cake; divide the mixture in half and add the 1 teaspoon of cocoa powder to one half of the mixture (Add additional water to the cocoa mixture if the addition of cocoa made it too thick to drizzle).
• Drizzle alternately the white and brown icings over the cake; let the icing set and dust the cake with additional powdered sugar (Will look like an avalanche on a snow covered mountain).
• If you have a real sweet tooth, you can serve the cake with a scoop of chocolate chip ice-cream which is nice on a warm summers day; on a cool day or Winter Holiday you might use a dollop of sweetened whipped cream flavored with the Frangelico Liqueur.