Tastes of Hawaii Recipe – Plantation Prairie-Style Beer Cake From Kauai’s Old Plantation Days

Week 38 – Plantation Prairie-Style Beer Cake!

Plantation Prairie-Style Beer Cake Recipe

• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 2 beaten eggs
• 3 cups sifted flour
• ½ tsp. salt
• 2 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• ½ tsp. allspice
• ½ tsp. cloves
• 1 cup chopped nuts (walnuts, pecans, mac nuts)
• 2 cups beer
• 2 cups chopped dates or prunes

Directions

Cream butter, sugar, and eggs. Sift together flour, salt, baking powder, and spices. Toss fruit and nuts in about 2 T. of flour mixture. Add remaining flour mixture to butter mixture. Beat until smooth. Gradually add the beer. Fold fruit and nuts into batter. Pour into a 10-inch tube pan sprayed with Pam. Bake at 350 for 1 hour and 15 minutes.