Pinto Bean Cake – A Mid-Century Recipe Test - Mid-Century Menu

Pinto Bean Cake – A Mid-Century Recipe Test - Mid-Century Menu

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1 servings

My obsession with weird-ingredient desserts continues. This week we are making a cake with a fun addition: Pinto Beans! It’s called, unsurprisingly, Pinto Bean Cake. I found this recipe in a stash of newspaper clippings from the 1970’s that I recently bought on eBay. Besides the fact that this cake contained a heck of a […]

Ingredients

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup shortening
  • 1 egg
  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp cloves
  • 1/2 tsp allspice
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 2 cups pinto beans, cooked and mashed (can use frozen!)
  • 2 cups diced raw apple
  • 1 cup raisins
  • 1 cup black walnuts
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Directions

  1. 1

    Cream sugar and shortening. Add egg.

  2. 2

    Sift together dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture.

  3. 3

    Stir in beans, apples, raisins, nuts and vanilla. (Raisins can be plumped in hot water)

  4. 4

    Pour into greased and floured 13×9 pan. Bake in 350 degree oven for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.

  5. 5

    Good with cream cheese icing, powdered sugar, white cooked icing or just whipped cream.