Recipe - Stout Cake

3 cup Flour
2 One half teaspoon Baking soda
1 teaspoon Salt
2 One half teaspoon Cinnamon
1 teaspoon Nutmeg
One fourth teaspoon Ground cloves
1 cup Vegetable oil
1 cup Dark molasses
1 cup Sugar
2 Eggs
1 cup Stout or dark beer

FROM: Shelley Rodgers

This dark spicy cake is reminiscent of gingerbread. Serve it with whipped
cream if you like, but it has an excellent moist texture and robust flavor
unadorned.

Work time: 25 minutes Total time: 1 hr 15 minutes Yield: 10 servings

Confectioner's sugar for sprinkling

Heat oven to 350~. Butter and flour a 12cup Bundt pan. Combine flour,
soda, salt and spices. Beat oil, molasses, sugar and eggs until
wellcombined. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Beat in stout. Pour into
prepared pan. Bake until cake pulls away from sides of pan, 4045 minutes.
Cool 10 minutes. remove from pan and cool completely. Dust with
confectioner's sugar.

Per serving: 498 calories, 5 g protein, 23g fat, 472 mg sodium, 6g
carbohydrates, 42 mg cholesterol [ For Women First magazine, 3/18/91 ]

** = this comes from the bottom of the files of Shelley Rodgers =

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