The Tennessee Whiskey Cake

Name: The Tennessee Whiskey Cake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 2 h 30 min
Total time: 2 h 50 min
Yield: 10-12 serving(s)
Ingredients: 473.18 ml all-purpose flour; 2.46 ml nutmeg; 6 eggs, separated; 236.59 ml butter, softened; 473.18 ml sugar; 118.29 ml Jack Daniels Whiskey; 591.47 ml raisins; 354.88 ml pecans, chopped

Submitted by AngelaTN

"Miss Mary Bobo ran a famous boarding house in Lynchburg, Tennessee, home of the Jack Daniels Distillery. Miss Mary, who lived to be 101, never touched a drop of whiskey herself, but she sure could cook with it! Here is one of her famous recipes."

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Ready In:: 2hrs 50mins
Ingredients:: 8
Serves:: 10

ingredients

473.18 ml all-purpose flour
2.46 ml nutmeg
6 eggs, separated
236.59 ml butter, softened
473.18 ml sugar
118.29 ml Jack Daniels Whiskey
591.47 ml raisins
354.88 ml pecans, chopped

directions

Place flour in dry skillet. Cook over medium heat while stirring until it is pale brown in color. Stir in nutmeg and set aside.
In small bowl beat egg whites until stiff. Set aside.
In large mixing bowl cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Add egg yolks and beat well.
Add whiskey and stir to blend.
Beat in flour, then fold in egg whites, raisins and pecans.
Pour into greased and floured 9-inch tube pan.
Bake at 300 for 2.5 hours, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

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I have had Miss Mary’s cookbook, (by Diana Dalsass), that this recipe is in since it came out in the 1980’s. It has great recipes in it, and this is one of them. I have made it several times, but not for a long time as I can no longer have nuts. I decided to swap the nuts for barley flakes. I toasted them in a dry skillet, after I toasted the flour. I cut the recipe in half-not so much hedging my bet, but because I no longer cook for family. It turned out very well, but then Miss Mary Bobo knew her way around a kitchen. Her Christmas Fruitcake recipe is one of the three fruitcakes on this planet that I will eat. I can no longer have it due to multiple forbidden ingredients, unfortunately. I am very happy I could adapt this recipe for my dietary needs and next time, I will do the full cake in the tube pan.

kjkvett
Not impressed. We followed the directions to the letter. The cake was very dry, the raisins and pecans were unevenly distributed, and the flavor was nothing special. It definitely needs a sauce. It was a lot of work and time for a very mediocre cake.

Gina H.