Spice Cake Recipe by Ruth Paget
Serves 6
Ingredients:
-2 ½ cups sifted flour
-1 ¼ cups sugar
-1 teaspoon salt
-1 teaspoon cinnamon
-1 teaspoon crushed cloves
-1 teaspoon nutmeg
-1 teaspoon allspice
-1 1/3 cup molasses
-2/3 cup milk
-2/3 cup softened butter
-2 ½ teaspoons baking powder
-1 teaspoon baking soda
-3 beaten eggs
-1/2 cup milk
Steps:
1-Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
2-Combine flour, sugar, salt, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and allspice together.
3-Mix molasses and milk together. Add softened butter to molasses mixture. Stir molasses mixture into the flour-spice mixture and blend well.
4-Add baking powder and baking soda to the molasses mixture.
5-Mix eggs and milk together. Blend the milk and eggs into the molasses mixture.
6-Pour the mixture into two deep 9-inch round baking cake pans.
7-Bake for 35 minutes.
Cool thoroughly on a rack. Frost the top of one cake and place the other on top of the bottom cake. With a long, flat spatula, frost the sides. Frost the top last.
Serve with coffee or tea.
(A Royal Oak, Michigan Recipe)
By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
