Holiday Spice Cake

Name: Holiday Spice Cake
Prep time: 55 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking powder; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 177 milliliters butter, softened; 2 sticks butter, softened; 296 milliliters buttermilk; 710 milliliters cake flour; 8 servings Cocoa powder, for garnish; 1 liters confectioners sugar; 4 eggs; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1 teaspoons ground cloves; 1 teaspoon ground ginger; 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg; 118 milliliters heavy cream; 8 servings Finely chopped nuts, for garnish; 1 teaspoons salt; 1 pinch Pinch salt; 59 milliliters shortening; 473 milliliters sugar; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Holiday Spice Cake might be just the dessert you are searching for. This recipe serves 8. One portion of this dish contains roughly 16g of protein, 72g of fat, and a total of 1417 calories. This recipe covers 17% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have ground nutmeg, ground cloves, butter, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 55 minutes.

Instructions

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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour three 8-inch round cake pans.

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Butter

All Purpose Flour

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Oven

In a small mixing bowl whisk together cake flour, baking powder, baking soda, ground nutmeg, ground cinnamon, ground ginger and ground cloves.

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Ground Cinnamon

Baking Soda

Ground Clove

Ginger Powder

Nutmeg

Cake Flour

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Mixing Bowl

Whisk

Cream the butter, sugar and salt until light and fluffy with an electric mixer. Beat in the eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the dry ingredients and the buttermilk alternately beginning and ending with the dry.

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Buttermilk

Butter

Cream

Sugar

Egg

Salt

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Hand Mixer

When the batter is well mixed and smooth, divide it amongst the 3 prepared cake pans and bake about 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cakes come out clean.

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Toothpicks

Oven

Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes then turn out to cool completely. If the cake layers have domed a little during the baking process, slice off the tops with a long serrated knife so they are flat and even.

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Serrated Knife

Frying Pan

Place the first layer, cut side down, on a cake pedestal or serving plate. Spoon about 3/4 cup of butter cream onto the center of the cake.

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Butter

Cream

Spread it almost to the very edges with an offset spatula. Repeat with the remaining 2 layers.

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Spread

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Offset Spatula

Garnish the top of the cake with finely chopped nuts and cocoa powder.

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Cocoa Powder

Nuts

Beat the butter, shortening and salt together until creamy with an electric mixer.

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Shortening

Butter

Salt

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Hand Mixer

Add half the confectioners' sugar and beat until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes.

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Powdered Sugar

Combine the vanilla extract and heavy cream. Gradually beat in the remaining confectioners' sugar alternating with the cream mixture until it is all incorporated and the frosting is very light and fluffy.

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Powdered Sugar

Vanilla Extract