Frosted Raisin Squares

Delicious, soft, cakelike squares. My mother got this recipe from a friend over thirty years ago, and has been making them ever since.

• Ready In: 40 mins
• Yields: 24 squares

Ingredients

• 1  cup raisins
• 2⁄3 cup boiling water
• 1  teaspoon instant coffee
• 1  teaspoon cinnamon

• BATTER

• 1⁄2 cup butter
• 1  cup sugar
• 1  egg
• 1  teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1⁄2 cups flour
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1  cup milk

• ICING

• 1⁄2 cup butter
• 2  cups icing sugar
• 2  tablespoons milk (or enough to make icing of spreading consistency)
• 1  teaspoon vanilla

• TOPPING

• 1⁄2 cup  chopped walnuts (or more, if you desire)

Directions

1. Pour boiling water over raisins.
2. Sprinkle with instant coffee and cinnamon.
3. Let cool.
4. Meanwhile, mix all batter ingredients together.
5. Pour liquid off raisins and add liquid to batter.
6. Mix well.
7. Add raisins to batter.
8. Pour mixture into jelly roll pan and bake for 20 minutes at 320 degrees F.
9. Let cool.
10. Meanwhile, make icing: Cream butter.
11. Add icing sugar.
12. Add milk, a little at a time, and blend well.
13. Blend in vanilla.
14. When cake is cool, frost with icing.
15. Sprinkle with chopped walnuts.
16. Cut into squares.