Sausage Cake

Ingredients

• 1 pound pork sausage
• 1.5 cups packed brown sugar
• 1.5 cups white sugar
• 2 eggs , beaten
• 3 cups sifted all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
• 1 cup cold , strong, brewed coffee
• 1 cup raisins
• 1 cup chopped walnuts

Instructions

1. 1

   Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) grease and flour a 9 inch Bundt pan. Pour boiling water over raisins and let stand 5 minutes. Drain well and dry raisins with a cloth towel.

2. 2

   In large bowl, combine sausage, brown sugar and white sugar. Stir until mixture is well blended. Add eggs and beat well.

3. 3

   In a separate bowl, sift together flour, ginger, baking powder and pumpkin pie spice.

4. 4

   Stir baking soda into coffee.

5. 5

   Add flour mixture and coffee alternately to sausage mixture, beating well after each addition. Fold raisins and walnuts into cake batter.

6. 6

   Pour batter into greased and floured 9 inch Bundt pan. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 1 1/2 hours or until toothpick inserted into cake comes out clean. Cool in pan 15 minutes, then turn out onto wire rack.