Sometimes you just have to wing it. After making pizza, pickles, and chutney, I still had green tomatoes to use. This is a simple spice cake, that ordinarily would be stuffed with nuts and various dried fruit, including citron. I substituted raisins and green tomatoes, and found a new keeper!
- 2 cup sugar
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 3 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1 cup raisins
- 2½ cups finely diced green tomatoes
Green tomato spice cake: if you didn’t tell people what was in there, they’d never guess.
Preheat oven to 350˚F and grease a 9×13 baking dish.
In a large mixing bowl, beat oil, sugar, eggs, and vanilla until smooth and creamy. Stir together the flour, salt, baking powder, cinnamon, and nutmeg; slowly beat this into the egg mixture and blend well. Stir in pecans, raisins, and tomatoes.
Pour into the greased 9×13 pan. Bake at 350˚ one hour, until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool, then serve directly from the pan.
