Jewish Honey Cake (Parve)

Posted for Zaar World Tour-Jewish. This recipe was found on a Jewish recipe website. Parve is a Jewish term for all foods that don't fit into the meat or dairy catagories. These foods may be consumed freely with either meat or dairy.

• Ready In: 1 hr 25 mins
• Yields: 2 loaves

Ingredients

• 4  eggs
• 1  cup sugar
• 1  cup honey
• 1  cup  vegetable oil
• 1  teaspoon vanilla
• 4  cups flour
• 1  teaspoon baking powder
• 1  teaspoon baking soda
• 2  teaspoons cinnamon
• 1⁄4 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1  pinch ginger
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 12  ounces coffee, cooled
• 1  apple, peeled, cored and grated
• 1  cup raisins

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350ºF. Spray two 9" x 5" loaf pans with non-stick cooking spray. Line the bottoms with brown paper.
2. In a large bowl, beat eggs. Add sugar, honey, oil and vanilla; mix well.
3. In a medium bowl, sift together, flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and cloves. Add the sifted, dry ingredients to the egg mixture. Add coffee, apple and raisins. Mix well.
4. Divide batter evenly between loaf pans. Bake in a 350ºF for 1 hour, or until a wooden pick inserted into cake comes out clean.