Need some way to deal with the insanity of this Election Day? Maybe it’s time to revive an old Election Day tradition from the early days of this country: Baking an ELECTION CAKE.
It turns out people used to bake a specific type of cake on Election Day to get through the long nights of counting ballots. It’s kind of like a dense fruit cake.
The recipe involves your standard cake ingredients like flour, butter, and eggs . . . plus things like brown sugar, buttermilk, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, raisins, and pecans.
The election cake recipe is making a comeback right now . . . between the rise in baking during the pandemic and people’s need for ANYTHING to help make this election smoother, it’s a natural fit.
Alternatively, you could get through tonight by drinking a gallon of whiskey. Either way.
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