Avocado Cake with Macadamia Nuts (1967)

• 2 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2-2/3 cups sifted flour
• 1-1/2 cups mashed avocado
• 3/4 cup macadamia nuts
• 3/4 cup raisins
• 1/2 cup chopped dates
• 1-1/2 tspn baking soda dissolved in 3/4 cup sour milk
• 3/4 cup shortening
• 3/4 tspn cinnamon
• 3/4 tspn allspice
• 3/4 tspn salt

Cream sugar and shortening until fluffy.  Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each egg.  Mix in avocado. sifted flour, and spices, adding alternately with sour milk.

Dust small amount of flour over nuts and fruits.  Fold into cake batter.  Place in 2 greased and floured pans.  Sprinkle tops with 1/4 cup sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon.  Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour, or until tester comes out clean.  

(Origin - "Still More of Our Favorite Recipes" by the Maui Extension Homemakers' Council in Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii; 1967.)

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