Ye Olde Butter Spice Cake

Here is the cake I ended up making for the birthday.

I didn't end up doing a sourdough cake, because upon reading the recipes you really need to have some sourdough starter ready and that takes a week to make. Hopefully next time!

Instead, here is what was in it:


Spice Cake

1 cup organic butter
2 cups organic Rapadura
4 grassfed freerange organic eggs
3 cups biodynamic wholewheat flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon allspice mix
1 cup fresh milk (unpasteurised/unhomogenized)

Cream the butter and rapadura together. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Sift together the dry ingredients and add alternately with the milk. Mix well. Place in two smallish greased pans. Bake at 160°C oven for about 45-50 minutes. Leave in the pan for about 5 minutes. Remove from pan and cool on rack.

It's truly amazing but most recipes for carrot or spice cakes available on the internet call for vegetable oil not butter. I really don't think people should be cooking with vegetable oils - other than coconut and palm. They just are not stable at heat, especially not the heats reached in ovens. The polyunsaturates are the worst!