{"id":11341,"date":"2012-02-24T00:05:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T08:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=11341"},"modified":"2012-02-24T00:05:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T08:05:16","slug":"todays-old-fashioned-recipe-cup-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/11341","title":{"rendered":"Today’s Recipe: Old-Fashioned “Cup Cake”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This “cup cake” is really a dense, full-size cake with an almost cookie-like taste. Really, really, yummy! Apparently, the small, individual-size cake that we think of today as a “cupcake” hadn’t been invented in 1916. If you check the amounts in this recipe, you’ll see why they called it a CUP cake\u2014a cup of this, a cup of that, everything a cup cup, old Macdonald had a farm …<\/p>\n

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“CUP CAKE”
\nPREP TIME: 20 MINUTES
\nCOOK TIME: 1 HOUR 15 MINUTES
\nMAKES: 18 SERVINGS<\/p>\n

1\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0cup butter, softened
\n2\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0cups sugar
\n3\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0eggs
\n4\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0cups flour
\n1\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0t baking powder
\n\u00bd\u00a0\u00a0 t baking soda
\n1\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0t cinnamon
\n\u00bd \u00a0 t nutmeg
\n1\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0cup milk
\n1\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0cup raisins
\n1\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0cup dried currants<\/p>\n

1. Preheat oven to 350\u00b0F. Butter a 10\u201d round cake pan or a 9\u201dx13\u201d cake pan.
\n2. In a large bowl or stand mixer, combine butter and sugar and mix until light and fluffy.
\n3. Begin adding eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
\n4. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
\n5. Alternate adding the flour mixture and milk to the butter mixture, beginning and ending with the flour mixture.
\n6. Fold in raisins and dried currants.
\n7. Pour batter into a buttered baking dish and bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.<\/p>\n

Gather ingredients.<\/p>\n

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Preheat oven to 350\u00b0F. Add 1 cup softened butter to a large bowl or stand mixer.<\/p>\n

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\nPour in\u00a02 cups sugar.<\/p>\n

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\nMix butter and sugar together until mixture is light and fluffy.<\/p>\n

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\nAdd an egg.<\/p>\n

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\nMix well. Continue adding the other two eggs one at a time. Mix well after each addition.<\/p>\n

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\nPlace flour in a medium bowl. Add\u00a01 t baking powder.<\/p>\n

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\nAdd\u00a0\u00bd t baking soda.<\/p>\n

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\nAdd 1 t cinnamon.<\/p>\n

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\nThen \u00bd t nutmeg.<\/p>\n

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\nStir to combine.<\/p>\n

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\nPour a little flour mixture into the butter mixture.<\/p>\n

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\nMix well, and then pour in a little milk.<\/p>\n

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\nContinue to alternate adding the rest of the flour and milk, ending with flour.<\/p>\n

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\nMix well.<\/p>\n

\"\"Pour in 1 cup raisins.<\/p>\n

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\nPour in 1 cup dried currants.<\/p>\n

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\nStir to combine.<\/p>\n

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\nPour the batter into a buttered 10\u201d round cake pan or a 9\u201dx13\u201d cake pan.<\/p>\n

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\nBake at 350\u00b0F for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.<\/p>\n

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