 Did your mama or Greenie ever talk about the great depression cake? This is it But some delicious ingredients apples and raisins and coffee Real easy to mix up in a bowl Today we're making a great depression cake Wow You guys stay tuned for this one Today we're making a great depression cake Not sure why this was called a great depression cake because it has a lot of really good ingredients in it So I'm not sure that they can really have gotten all these spices and good things like coffee during the depression But we're going to make it anyway because it's a popular cake All right, we're combining the first five ingredients. So we're going to start with two cups of coffee I've got some strong brewed coffee already because I make my kids Starbucks cold brew. So that's what I'm using And my depression cake So we're going to need two cups of this strong Brew and I am using cold Doesn't matter if your coffee is hot or cold Because we're going to simmer it two cups of strong coffee Two cups of granulated sugar a half a cup of shortening Let's mix that up before we add a shortening These eyes are really too big for my pots But I have to use the front eye for me to video and do a good job It's just the way it is. Okay Next Two cups of raisins. That's a lot of raisins. I mean y'all two cups of Raisins I'm going to use a cup of golden raisins and a cup of regular raisins There's the golden going in Regular ones are drier looking on a cup of regular ones. So we're going to simmer these I'm going to add the apples And you would add your fresh apple as well If you have a fresh apple Like I substituted a dried apple for a fresh apple, but I still put in an apple. Okay So we're going to simmer this for 10 minutes Okay, so I've turned the heat down. I'm going to turn it down to about from two to three So that it's an actual simmer instead of a boil like this And I have set my timer. You're going to cook it in the 13 by 9 But first we've got to mix up the rest of the recipe. I want you to look at this enormous bowl Somebody sent me I love it. Thank you, Julie Okay We're going to go ahead and get this in the bowl and we're going to let it start cooling down You need to cool it at least 10 minutes Before you add the rest of the ingredients Okay, let's finish up this delicious cake Great depression cake. All right, we're going to put in two cups of flour Now I'm using self rising because I don't even I can't even find my baking powder So if you use self rising, you ain't got a full with it If you're going to use plain flour Then you're going to use Bacon powder and Soda in this recipe and I will list those amounts in the bottom So that if you're using plain flour, you'll have the recipe Remember the recipe is always at the bottom of the description post So um Let's go ahead and add our Spices now this calls for a lot of spices Let's turn the light on this is cloves. It calls for a teaspoon each Which is a lot So what I'm going to do because I always do this you don't have to You don't want to But if something calls for a teaspoon of these stronger spices, I always use a half teaspoon every time half teaspoon of cloves You're supposed to use all spice in it too, but I don't even have any nutmeg I'm going to put A whole teaspoon of nutmeg because I like the flavor of it better than the cloves And of course I'll put in a teaspoon of cinnamon. So really the only one I reduce just the Cloves so that is That teaspoon Of cinnamon a teaspoon of nutmeg and a half teaspoon of cloves will be my depression cake recipe And y'all know me I like to use self-rising flour and everything I do Now we're going to add the nuts we're going to get this mixed up good This cake does not have eggs. I know I've told y'all that several times, but just Telling you again All right, so in the walnuts we're going to put in a cup A walnuts. I don't think that was quite a cut so I'll add just a few more Don't that look good y'all it smells so good Oh my gosh, it smells so good. I can't believe how good it smells Makes me hungry All right, so we're going to put this in a 13 by 9 and get it in the oven and bake it at 350 degrees For 30 minutes. I'm going to make sure it's done in 30 minutes because lots of times with Cakes that have fruit in them it takes longer to cook If you think it's getting too browned And turn the temperature down to 325 on your oven because Everybody's oven's a little bit different Make sure you spray the pan really good This is baking spray that has the flour in it because anything with nuts and fruit tends to want to stick more Because it has more sugar in it. Okay If you're diabetic Since there's two cups of sugar And two cups of flour in this recipe and there's all that fruit If you're diabetic, it wouldn't hurt at all to cut sugar down in this recipe I would cut it down at least to a cup and a half If I were a diabetic We're going to get this in the oven And bake it till it's done All right, we've got about three minutes left on this timer So you can check on cake after it's been in there 20 minutes So I'm going to just Shake it. Do you see how it's jiggling so we know it's not done? That cannot jiggle Hopefully it won't fall because I jiggled it It shouldn't since it's been in there over 20 minutes And now this cake has got a lot of fruit in it. So it's going to take it some time to get done y'all All right, we're going to take this cake and we're going to dust it with some powdered sugar Well, it's falling out of my thing. Let me get a bigger one It's kind of crunchy on the top a little bit I always like the corner piece of anything. So we're going to take this out and see how it looks I'm sure it'll be falling apart done I mean falling apart kind of cake. That's why it's it tells you to make it in a 13 by 9. I'm sure we'll try to Do better with this piece. How's that? But it has so many nuts and raisins and stuff in it that um, I would imagine It's going to be hard to take out like a regular piece of cake Especially when it's warm. Let me just use this thing Because it is warm Looks good So I'm gonna give it a taste The great depression cake. I've never even tried it It's really good. It tastes a lot like a fruit cake though And I love fruit cake But if you don't like fruit cake, you probably won't like the great depression cake But I do I love it Full of goodness goodies Thanks for watching colored valley cooks Where we cook a lot mama did. Bye y'all love you