Old-Fashioned Spice Cake Recipe
This Old-Fashioned Spice Cake surprises you with the flavors packed into it. For those who loves the strong taste of the spices in dessert, this is defintely the dish for you. Try this Old-Fashioned Spice Cake for once, I bet, you will get a lot of compliments for this one!!
Ingredients
2 1/4 cups sifted Swans Down Cake Flour
1 teaspoon Calumet Baking Powder
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon cloves
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
Pinch of black pepper
3/4 cup shortening
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
3 eggs, unbeaten
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla
Directions
Sift flour, baking powder, salt, soda, spices, and pepper together.
Cream shortening thoroughly.
Gradually add sugars and cream together until light and fluffy.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each.
Add flour alternately with buttermilk.
Beat after each addition until smooth.
Add vanilla.
Pour batter into three 8-inch layer pans or two 9-inch layer pans which have been lined on bottoms with paper.
Bake in moderate oven (350°F.) 25 to 30 minutes for the 8-inch layers and 30 to 35 minutes for the 9-inch layers.
Frost with a butter cream frosting.
Cream shortening thoroughly.
Gradually add sugars and cream together until light and fluffy.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each.
Add flour alternately with buttermilk.
Beat after each addition until smooth.
Add vanilla.
Pour batter into three 8-inch layer pans or two 9-inch layer pans which have been lined on bottoms with paper.
Bake in moderate oven (350°F.) 25 to 30 minutes for the 8-inch layers and 30 to 35 minutes for the 9-inch layers.
Frost with a butter cream frosting.
