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: 3 teaspoons baking powder; 315 g (10½ oz) plain flour; 300 g (10 oz) caster sugar, half vanilla sugar if possible; 175 g (6 oz) butter, softened, plus extra for greasing; ½ teaspoon salt; ¼ teaspoon ground allspice; ¼ teaspoon ground ginger; ½ teaspoon ground cloves; 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg; 1 teaspoon cinnamon; 175 g (6 oz) cream cheese; 25 g (1 oz) unsalted butter; 2 tablespoons black treacle; 75 g (3 oz) walnuts, chopped very finely (optional); 3 egg yolks; 300 ml (½ pint) milk; 1 eggs; 2 tablespoons syrup from the jar of stem ginger; 250 g (8 oz) icing sugar, sifted; 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
Vegetarian
Baking

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