Chris's Birthday Spice Cake
Classic spice cake recipe with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves
Ingredients
- 2 cups Flour you can use cake flour if you have it
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- ½ tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- ½ tsp Cloves
- ½ tsp Nutmeg
- 1 pinch Cayenne Optional
- 1½ tbsp Boiling Water
- ½ cup softened Butter Or Coconut oil/Shortening
- 1½ cup Sugar
- 2 eggs
- ⅔ cup Buttermilk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º F
- Combine flour, soda, and salt. Set aside.
- Combine spices and mix well with boiling water. Set aside.
- Cream butter with sugar.
- Add eggs to creamed butter and sugar. Continue to mix until creamy.
- Stir spice mixture into creamed mixture.
- Alternate adding flour and buttermilk. Starting and ending with flour. Beat until fully incorporated and mixture is smooth.
- Split cake batter into two 9-inch cake pans.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes until the top springs back with a finger touch.
- Cool in pans for 5 minutes before fully cooking face up on a cooling rack.
- Frost (see frosting recipe).