#2329 - Brown Sugar Beer Cake

(by Shirley McNevich)

3 cups flour
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ground cloves
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1 cup Crisco shortening
2 cups Domino's dark brown sugar (packed)
2 eggs
2 cups regular beer (NOT lite)
1 cup chopped pecans OR walnuts
powdered sugar for sprinkling

Grease a 10" tube pan. Into a bowl sift the flour and add salt, baking soda, cinnamon, ground cloves and nutmeg--stir. In a mixer add Crisco and brown sugar--beat. Add eggs--beat. Remove 2 TBSP of the flour mixture for later, then add the rest of the flour mixture to the mixer with the brown sugar mixture--beat. Add beer--beat. In a separate bowl add the reserved 2 TBSP of flour mixture to the chopped nuts--stir to mix. Remove mixer bowl from mixer--add chopped nuts mixture--stir until mixed. Pour batter into the prepared pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 minutes--test with a toothpick for doneness. Cool for 20 minutes, then invert it on to a cake plate. Sprinkle the cake with powdered sugar before cutting and serving.