Antique Apple Date Coffee Cake Recipes

DATE COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking pan.
• Place dates in a bowl. Sprinkle 1 teaspoon baking soda on top and mix well. Add 1/3 cup boiling water, stir, and set aside until dates have swelled, about 10 minutes. Squeeze with your hands to remove most of the liquid.
• Meanwhile, mix flour and 1 teaspoon baking soda together in a bowl. Combine instant coffee, milk powder, and 2 tablespoons boiling water in a separate bowl; mix until dissolved.
• Beat sugar, margarine, and eggs together in a large bowl with an electric mixer until well blended. Add coffee mixture and dates; beat until well mixed. Gradually mix in flour. Pour batter into the prepared baking pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes.

AUNT DEE DEE'S APPLE COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 pan.
• Mix pie filling and cinnamon, set aside.
• Beat flour, white sugar, milk, 1/2 cup softened butter, baking powder, salt and eggs in mixing bowl on low speed for 30 seconds. Beat on medium speed for 2 minutes.
• Pour half of the batter into prepared pan. Spoon half of the pie filling over the batter. Spread remaining cake batter over pie filling, and top with the remaining half of the pie filling.
• Mix brown sugar and nuts together and sprinkle over top of cake. Drizzle with 2 tablespoons melted butter.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 45 to 55 minutes. Allow cake to cool 20 minutes.
• Combine confectioners sugar, 1 tablespoon butter, 3/4 teaspoon vanilla, 2 to 3 teaspoons hot water. Beat until smooth. Drizzle over cake.

OLD-TIME APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• You should have about 2 cups diced apples. Mix apples and sugar together in a large bowl. Let stand for about 30 minutes to draw the juice.
• Stir in egg, flour, soda, cinnamon and 3 tbsp of the wheat germ until well blended.
• Turn into a greased 8 inch square baking pan. Sprinkle remaining wheat germ over the top.
• Bake at 375 F for 30 minutes or until pick inserted int the centre comes out clean.
• Cool on rack. Serve warm or at room temperature. Makes 8 or 9 servings depending on how you cut them. Good as it is but vanilla yogurt makes a nice low fat topping if you must have a topping.

1930'S APPLESAUCE CAKE (DEPRESSION ERA CAKE)

Steps:

• Cream together butter and sugar in a large bowl, stir in corn syrup and set aside; sift together flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves.
• Dissolve the soda in applesauce;(or coffee if using) add flour mixture and applesauce mixture alternately to creamed mixture.
• Pour into greased 13X9-inch pan; bake at 350 degrees for 45 to 50 minutes or until cake tests done.

VINTAGE COFFEE CAKE RECIPE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees and spray a 9x13-inch baking dish with cooking spray. 2. In a large mixing bowl, combine cake mix, sour cream, vegetable oil, water, and eggs. Mix well. 3. In a small bowl, stir together brown sugar and cinnamon. 4. Pour half of batter into prepared pan and spread evenly. Sprinkle with half the brown sugar mixture. 5. Pour remaining batter on top and spread evenly. Sprinkle remaining brown sugar mixture on top. 6. Bake for 40 to 50 minutes, or until cake is set. Let cool slightly. 7. Mix together all glaze ingredients in a small bowl and drizzle on top of cooled cake.