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| Prep Time | 30 minutes |
| Cook Time | 35 minutes |
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Ingredients
- 1 3/4 C Cake flour See notes on how to make cake flour
- 2 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp cloves
- few grains of cayenne optional - I didn't use for my first cake
- 2 Tbsp boiling water
- 1/2 C butter or shortening I used unsalted sweet cream butter, softened
- 1 C sugar separated
- 2 eggs separated
- 2/3 C milk
- 1/4 C butter, softened
- 2 C confectioners' XXXX sugar very fine sugar, just used powdered sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 Tbsp orange juice
- 1 tsp orange rind I didn't have fresh oranges, just used OJ
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Instructions
- For Cake: Sift the flour, measure and resift 3 times with the baking powder and salt. Combine the spices and mix thoroughly with boiling water. Cream the butter until soft and smooth, blend in 3/4 C of the sugar, and add the beaten egg yolks. Beat until light and fluffy. Stir in spice mixture; then add flour mixture and milk alternately, beginning and ending with flour and beating until smooth after each addition. Beat egg whites, add remaining 1/4 C sugar, and continue beating until very stiff; fold into batter. Turn into two 8-inch cake pans which have been lined with thin plain paper in bottom. Bake in a moderate oven (350F) for about 25 minutes, until springy when pressed lightly with the finger tips. Cool 5 minutes before removing from pans and then turn out and cool thoroughly on cake racks. Put together with orange frosting.
- For Frosting: Cream butter until very soft and smooth; then add sugar gradually, creaming thoroughly. Add salt and orange rind. Gradually work in the orange juice using just enough to produce a smooth spreading consistence. Spread on cake (Sufficient for two 8-inch layers)
Recipe Notes
To make cake flour: For 2 C cake flour, mix 1 3/4 C all-purpose flour and 1/4 C corn starch.
I discovered that I had no round cake pans, so I ended up making a single layer cake in a 10" spring form pan. Still took about 25 minutes, maybe closer to 30 in my oven, but the temperature was a bit less according to my oven thermometer.
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Nutrition Facts
Spice Cake with Orange Butter Frosting
Amount Per Serving
Calories 722
Calories from Fat 171
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 19g
29%
Saturated Fat 12g
60%
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.2g
Monounsaturated Fat 1g
Cholesterol 101mg
34%
Sodium 298mg
12%
Potassium 59mg
2%
Total Carbohydrates 131g
44%
Dietary Fiber 0.3g
1%
Sugars 88g
Protein 6g
12%
Vitamin A
15%
Vitamin C
2%
Calcium
9%
Iron
17%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.