Miney's Coffee Cake

Ingredients

• 2 fresh yeast cakes
• 1 3/4 cups sugar
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 cups milk, lukewarm
• 3 1/2 cups flour
• 3 large eggs
• 4 ounces raisins
• 4 tablespoons cinnamon
• 1/4 cup butter, melted

Directions

1. 1

   Dissolve yeast and 1 tablespoon sugar in the lukewarm milk.

2. 2

   Add 1 1/2 cups flour; beat well.

3. 3

   Let stand for 1 hour, or until light. Beat eggs.

4. 4

   Add 1 1/2 cups of sugar, the eggs and remainding of flour.

5. 5

   Stir and mix well.

6. 6

   Pour into well-buttered 9-inch pie pans so that dough is no more than 1 inch thick.

7. 7

   Press raisins into dough about 1-inch apart. Let cakes rise at room temperature until they double in height. Mix cinnamon and remaining 1/4 cup sugar and sprinkle thickly over cakes.

8. 8

   The sprinkle with melted butter.

9. 9

   Bake at 350° as you would layer cakes, until cakes spring back to the touch and a wooden pick inserted comes out clean, 25 to 40 minutes.