Plantation Spice Cake

Name: Plantation Spice Cake
Prep time: 35 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 1 h
Yield: Serves 10–12
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 315 g (10½ oz) plain flour; ½ teaspoon salt; 175 g (6 oz) cream cheese; 3 egg yolks; 2 tablespoons syrup from the jar of stem ginger; 250 g (8 oz) icing sugar, sifted; 3 teaspoons baking powder; 300 g (10 oz) caster sugar, half vanilla sugar if possible; ½ teaspoon ground cloves; 2 tablespoons black treacle; 1 eggs; 75 g (3 oz) walnuts, chopped very finely (optional); ¼ teaspoon ground allspice; 1 teaspoon cinnamon; 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg; 175 g (6 oz) butter, softened, plus extra for greasing; 25 g (1 oz) unsalted butter; 300 ml (½ pint) milk; ¼ teaspoon ground ginger; 2 tablespoons stem ginger, chopped very finely

Preparation info

Serves
10–12

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr

Appears in

American Baking

By Patricia Lousada

Published 1986

About

‘Sugar and spice and all things nice’ describes this wonderfully light layer cake from the South. It is one of my favourites and is particularly good with the ginger frosting. See for a note on vanilla sugar.

Ingredients

For the cake

315 g (10½ oz) plain flour
3 teaspoons baking powder

Americas
United States
Cake
Baking
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven and line three 23 cm (9-inch) cake tins with buttered greaseproof paper.

Sift together the flour, baking powder, spices and salt. Cream the butter until it is light and fluffy, add