Rose Treiger’s Honey Cake (lekach)

Irwin Treiger

Here’s the recipe for my mother’s lekach (honey cake). My wife bakes several of these cakes every year around Rosh Hashono time and they are as good now as when my mother baked them.
Irwin

4 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 cup honey
½ cup oil
3 cups flour
4 tsp. cocoa
1 cup coffee
2 cups nuts
2 cups raisins
½ tsp. salt
2 tsps. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. clove
1 tsp. ginger
1 tsp. all spice
½ cup bourbon

Cream sugar and oil, add eggs and honey. Alternate adding flour and coffee. Add cocoa, nuts, raisins (roll raisins in flour before adding so they don’t sink), bourbon and spices.

Grease baking pan.
Bake 325° in Pyrex
Bake 350 °in aluminum
Bake 45 minutes at most