Amazing Spice Cake Recipes

THE PERFECT CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Sift the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into the bowl and mix until combined.
• In another bowl, combine the buttermilk, oil, eggs, and vanilla.
• With the mixer on low speed, slowly add the wet ingredients to the dry. With mixer still on low, add the coffee and stir just to combine, scraping the bottom of the bowl with a rubber spatula.
• Pour the batter into two 8-inch round prepared pans and bake for 30-40 minutes at 350°F, until a cake tester or toothpick comes out mostly clean (not wet).
• Cool in the pans for about 10 minutes, then turn them out onto a cooling rack and cool completely.

AMAZING CORN CAKE

Steps:

• Stir together flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
• In a mixing bowl, combine corn and sugars. Beat in eggs and oil till well blended. Mix flour mixture into batter. Stir in raisins and nuts. Pour batter into greased 9 x 13 inch pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 30 to 35 minutes, or till cake tests done. Cool.

MOIST, TENDER SPICE CAKE

Steps:

• Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and lightly flour a metal or disposable foil 9-by-13-inch pan. Whisk dry ingredients and spices in a large bowl. Mix milk, eggs and vanilla extract in a 2-cup measuring cup.
• Beat softened butter into dry ingredients, first on low, then medium, until mixture forms pebble-sized pieces. Add about 1/3 of the milk mixture and beat on low until smooth. Add remaining milk mixture in two stages; beat on medium speed until batter is just smooth. Add the sugar; beat until just incorporated, about 30 seconds. Pour batter into cake pan.
• Bake until a cake tester or toothpick inserted into the cake's center comes out clean, about 40 minutes. Set pan on a wire rack; let cool for 5 minutes. Run a knife around the pan perimeter and turn cake onto rack. Let cool.

EASY APPLESAUCE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare an 8-inch baking pan with non-stick spray.
• In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugar.
• Add in the applesauce and mix well.
• Add in the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and cloves and mix just until combined.
• Fold in the walnuts and raisins.
• Pour the batter into your prepared dish and bake for 40-45 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean.
• Sprinkle with the powdered sugar, cut and serve!

SPICE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour 3-6 inch round cake pans. Set aside.
• In a medium size bowl whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, allspice, cloves, and nutmeg. Set aside.
• Add the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix on medium speed for 2 minutes. Add the eggs. Mix until well combined, about 1-2 minutes.
• Alternate adding the dry ingredients and the buttermilk, starting and ending with the dry ingredients.
• Once all of the dry ingredients have been added, mix on low speed until JUST combined!
• Divide the batter evenly amongst the 3 cake pans. Bake for 25-30 minutes. (Mine baked for 27 minutes).
• Remove from the oven and allow the cake to cool in the pans for 10 minutes.
• After 10 minutes, turn the cakes out onto a wire rack to cool until a bit warmer than room temperature. *
• Frost the cake. Enjoy!

SPICY, AMAZING GINGERBREAD CAKE.

Steps:

• Sift first 6 ingredients together in a bowl, set aside.
• Heat all butter, molasses and golden syrup in a small saucepan, simmer until butter is melted, stirring continuously.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Pour the melted ingredients in a thin stream over flour mixture stirring constantly.
• When smooth, add the eggs 1 by 1 stirring after each addition.
• Put into 7 x 12 cake pan and bake for 35-40 mnutes until tester comes out clean (like a knife).

AMAZING SPICE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Cream margarine and sugar.
• Beat in egg and vanilla.
• Add baking powder, salt and spices.
• Add milk to margarine mixture in 2 parts alternately with flour.
• Begin and end with flour.
• Spread batter into a greased 8" square pan.
• (For a 9" X 13" cake, double the recipe.) Bake for 35 to 40 minutes.
• When cool, frost with your choice of frosting (I added some orange extract to vanilla buttercream).