Sussex cake

Ingredients

• 450 g flour
• 170 g vegan butter, plus a little more for the pan
• 115 g golden raisins
• 115 g sugar
• Zest of 1 lemon
• About 250 ml water

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Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 230°C (450°F) with a deep cake pan inside.
2. Beat the vegan butter with the sugar until creamy: how light the cake turns out depends on how much you beat it (how much air you get in).
3. Add the flour, raisins and zest, and water until the batter almost, but not quite, drops off the spoon.
4. Grease the hot pan, add the batter and bake until golden, 20 to 30 minutes.
5. Cover it with parchment paper, lower the oven to 180°C (350°F) and bake until it has had an hour and a half to two hours in total.
6. The author already designed it without animal ingredients, and warns: if you try to make it richer, it'll turn out as heavy as lead.

Nutrition facts

Approximate, per serving (about 94 g). Calculated with data from USDA FoodData Central.