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

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.