![](../images/for_pdf/1018-04201.jpg) | | Election Night Spice Cake. Photo Susie Iventosch | | | | | | This spice cake is just perfect for crisp autumn days as well as spicy (and tense) election parties! Actually, I'd never made a cake for election night, but someone tipped me off that it might be a fun idea. So, I took an old family recipe that my great aunt Clara used to make, and added apples, raisins and lots of extra spice for a cornucopia of flavors.
If you plan to make it for a holiday gathering instead of election night, and I would not blame you; for that and given this year's fascinating election, you might want to double the recipe and make it a two-layer cake. It will feed twice as many people and would be attractive perched upon a festive cake plate.
Should you decide to make it for the election and you don't have black in your food coloring repertoire, just mix blue and lots of red and a dash of green, then more red, and eventually you will come up with the black color for the letters. (That's how I did it!)
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