Mom Edna's Old-Fashioned Jam Cake

Name: Mom Edna's Old-Fashioned Jam Cake
Prep time: 56 min
Cook time: 56 min
Total time: 56 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon baking soda; 12 servings Finishing Glaze; 12 servings Soaking Glaze; 237 milliliters seedless blackberry jam; 355 milliliters butter; 237 milliliters buttermilk; 6 larges eggs; 710 milliliters all-purpose flour; 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 2 teaspoons ground cloves; 355 milliliters chopped pecans; 237 milliliters raisins; 473 milliliters sugar

Mom Edna's Old-Fashioned Jam Cake requires approximately 56 minutes from start to finish. This recipe serves 12. One portion of this dish contains roughly 9g of protein, 35g of fat, and a total of 694 calories. This recipe covers 13% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up baking soda, buttermilk, soaking glaze, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

Line 4 (9-inch) round cakepans with wax paper; coat pans with cooking spray. Set aside.

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Cooking Spray

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Wax Paper

Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy; gradually add sugar, beating well.

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Butter

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

Add jam, beating until blended.

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Jam

Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until blended after each addition.

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Egg

Combine flour and next 3 ingredients; add to butter mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed until blended after each addition. Stir in pecans and raisins. Spoon batter evenly into prepared pans.

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Buttermilk

Raisins

Butter

Pecans

All Purpose Flour

Bake at 350 for 25 to 28 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks 10 minutes; remove from pans, and cool on wire racks.

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Prepare the Finishing Glaze. While the Finishing Glaze cools, prepare the Soaking Glaze.

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Glaze

Place 1 cake layer, upside down, on a cake plate. Prick layer with a small paring knife, making holes about 1/4-inch apart. Spoon a scant 1/2 cup Soaking Glaze, about 2 tablespoons at a time, into middle of cake layer.

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Glaze

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Spread glaze into cake in a circular motion after each addition, using a large spoon.

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Glaze

Spoon 1 cup Finishing Glaze onto cake layer, about 1/4 cup at a time, using same procedure as for applying Soaking Glaze. (Finishing Glaze will overflow onto sides.)

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Glaze

Repeat procedure with remaining cake layers and glazes. Spoon remaining Finishing Glaze over top of cake allowing to flow down sides.

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Glaze

Let cake stand until glaze becomes firm.

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Glaze

Note: Cake can be prepared up to two days ahead, if desired.

Tip: If you want a clean cake plate, slip strips of wax paper (approximately 3 inches wide) between the edge of first cake layer and cake plate before applying glazes. Allow glazes to become firm, but not hard, before removing strips. However, we didn't mind the drips.

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