*Magic Spice Cake
From Sharon*
For years I searched for my favorite "Magic Spice Cake" recipe, and
finally found it in an old newspaper ad for Softasilk on a site selling
old documents. Unfortunately, I could only read part of it. I was able
to reconstruct it by going to one of my old Joy of Cooking editions
(1952) and finding "One Bowl Cakes." This recipe was from an early box
insert in the cake flour box for these "One Bowl Cakes" when they just
came out in the forties, and as a young girl I won first prize at the
Umatilla County (Oregon) Fair with it more than once. I can remember the
recipe insert very well, because there was a drawing of a magician with
a top hat and a wand. I was so happy when I finally found that old ad
after many searches, that I made the cake at once. It tasted just as I
remembered it.
Magic Spice Cake
(makes a two layer cake)
Prepare pans by greasing and flouring.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Sift Together:
2 1/4 cups Softasilk Cake Flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
3/4 tsp cinnamon
3/4 tsp ground cloves
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
Add:
2/3 cup buttermilk or sour milk (of 1 cup total)
(can make sour milk by putting small amount white vinegar in regular
milk until it thickens)
3/4 cup shortening
Beat 2 minutes (or 300 strokes by hand) and scrape sides
Add:
Remainder 1/3 cup buttermilk or sour milk
2 unbeaten eggs
Beat 2 minutes more and scrape sides
Divide evenly between pans and bake 30-35 minutes or until tester comes
out clean.
I have frosted this with many kinds of frosting. Seafoam works well, or
a brown sugar frosting. You could add raisins to 7 minute frosting to
put in the center and then use plain 7 minute frosting on top. I have
also made this into a three layer cake easily by adding 1/3 to all
ingredients. You may find this cake to be extremely tender and may want
to freeze the layers a bit before frosting them.
Download PDF and Print <../cake-recipes-pdf/magic-spice-cake.pdf>
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*Ginny Butterfield
Cranberry Twp, PA
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