Cooking Class #6: New Duchess Spice Cake

As I mentioned in my Easter blog, Laura made Spice Cake for the occasion of our family holiday dinner.

This recipe was from my mom’s old Betty Crocker Cookbook

Here is the recipe for the Spice cake recipe I have been using for years.

2 1/2 c Sifted cake flour
2 1/3 c Sifted all-purpose flour
1 c Sugar
1 ts Baking soda
1 1/2 ts Cinnamon
3/4 ts Nutmeg
3/4 ts Cloves
1 ts Salt
1 c Brown sugar
1 c Buttermilk
2/3 c. Shortening
3 Eggs

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Grease and flour 2-9″ layer cake pans or one 13×9″ oblong pan.

Sift flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and salt together.

Add the brown sugar, shortening and buttermilk.

Beat 2 minutes. Add eggs. . Bake layer pans for 30 to 35 minutes, oblong pan 45 minutes until cake tests done. Cool.

Frosting

Beat together

3 cups Confectioners Sugar
1/2 cup presoftended butter (1 stick)
3 t. vanilla
2 Tablespoons Milk (or as needed)

Laura’s cake was delicious and almost gone by the next day!
🙂