Recipe adapted from Aunt Rose's
A quick internet search on Abe Lincoln cake brings up numerous
recipes for almond cake. But decades before the internet, my husband’s aunt was
making this Abe Lincoln Cake from a family recipe for her children and their lucky cousins. Instead
of almonds, it’s flavored with a touch of orange and nutmeg. Perhaps in a past generation, someone had a nut allergy, so the almonds were replaced with spices. The perfect
proportions of butter, sugar, and eggs make what is essentially a pound cake a moist, dense loaf with thin and
crunchy crust. This crust is the magic that makes this cake unusually addictive.
