Breakfast Sausage Cake

This is a wonderful breakfast cake that includes sausage. It's wonderful spices fill the air as you bake it making your house smell as good as it tastes! It's an 'in a hurry, out the door' morning food that you don't even mind giving the kids.

• Preparation Time: 30 mins
• Cooking Time: 1 hr 30 mins
• Total Time: 2 hr
• Calories: 546 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 ½ cups white sugar
• 1 cup chopped walnuts
• 1 cup raisins
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 3 cups boiling water
• 1 pound ground pork sausage
• 1 ½ cups brown sugar
• 1 cup cold coffee

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Place raisins in a bowl and cover with boiling water; set aside for 5 to 10 minutes. Drain well and dry raisins in cloth, set aside.

Step 2

Place sausage in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium-high heat until lightly brown. Drain, crumble into small pieces and set aside.

Step 3

In a large bowl, combine sausage, white sugar and brown sugar; stir until mixture is well blended. Add eggs and beat well.

Step 4

In a separate bowl, sift together flour, ginger, baking powder and pumpkin pie spice. Stir baking soda into coffee. Add flour mixture and coffee alternately to meat mixture, beating well after each addition. Fold raisins and walnuts into cake batter. Turn batter into well-greased and floured Bundt cake pan.

Step 5

Bake in preheated oven for 75 to 90 minutes until done. Cool 15 minutes in pan before turning out onto serving platter.