Spice cake

Name: Spice cake
Ingredients: butter, for greasing breadcrumbs, for sprinkling; butter, for greasing breadcrumbs, for sprinkling; 500 g/1¼ lb/5 cups plain (all-purpose) flour; 20 ml/4 tsp baking powder; pinch of salt; 350 g/12 oz/1½ cups light muscovado (brown) sugar; 1.5 ml/¼ tsp ground allspice; 10 ml/2 tsp ground cinnamon; 2.5 ml/½ tsp freshly grated nutmeg; 1.5 ml/¼ tsp ground cloves; 400–450 ml/14–15 fl oz/1⅔–2 cups milk; 1.5 ml/¼ tsp ground cardamom

Preparation info

Serves
20

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cakes

By Ann Nicol

Published 2014

About

Cardamom, cloves and allspice, with the more usual cake spices, give this cake a heady blend that smells good as you take it out of the oven. The flavour will improve after a few days, so make the cake in advance and wrap well. This will keep for up to five days in an airtight container.

Ingredients

butter, for greasing breadcrumbs, for sprinkling
500 g/1¼ lb/5 cups <

Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 150°C/300°F/Gas 2. Grease a 20–23cm/8–9in round deep cake tin (pan) and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Remove the excess crumbs.
Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into a large bowl. Stir in the sugar, cinnamon, allspice, cloves, nu