McCalls Best Spice Cake
Yield
1 cakePrep
20 minCook
45 minReady
70 minTrans-fat Free
Ingredients
| Amount | Measure | Ingredient | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 ½ | cups |
all-purpose flour
sifted |
|
| 1 | teaspoon |
baking powder
|
|
| 1 | teaspoon |
baking soda
|
|
| 1 | teaspoon |
salt
|
|
| 1 | teaspoon |
cinnamon
|
|
| ½ | teaspoon |
cloves
|
|
| ⅛ | teaspoon |
black pepper
|
|
| ½ | cup |
margarine
softened |
|
| ½ | cup |
brown sugar
|
*
|
| 1 | cup |
sugar
|
|
| 2 | large |
eggs
|
|
| 1 | teaspoon |
vanilla extract
|
|
| 1 ¼ | cups |
buttermilk
|
|
Ingredients
| Amount | Measure | Ingredient | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| 591 | ml |
all-purpose flour
sifted |
|
| 5 | ml |
baking powder
|
|
| 5 | ml |
baking soda
|
|
| 5 | ml |
salt
|
|
| 5 | ml |
cinnamon
|
|
| 2.5 | ml |
cloves
|
|
| 0.6 | ml |
black pepper
|
|
| 118 | ml |
margarine
softened |
|
| 118 | ml |
brown sugar
|
*
|
| 237 | ml |
sugar
|
|
| 2 | large |
eggs
|
|
| 5 | ml |
vanilla extract
|
|
| 296 | ml |
buttermilk
|
|
Directions
Preheat oven to 350℉ (180℃).
Grese well and flour 2, eight inch pans or a 13x9 inch baking pan.
Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, soda, cinnamon, cloves, pepper.
In a large bowl use electric mixer at high speed to beat butter, sugars, eggs and vanilla until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes.
Occasionally scrate the sides of the bowl with a scrapper.
At low speed, beat in flour mixture (in fourths) alternately with buttermilk (in thirds) beginning and ending with the flour.
Beat until smooth about one minute.
Pour batter into prepared pans; bake until surgace springs back when gently touched with fingertips.
Layers 30 to 35 minutes and oblong 45 minutes.
Cool in pan on wire rack.
Frost as desired.
