Jam Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cps sugar
• 2 cps. blackberry jam
• 1 ½ cp. shortening
• 5 eggs
• 1 cp. Buttermilk
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 3 ½ cps. flour
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 2 tsp. each of allspice, cloves, cinnamon, & nutmeg
• Icing Ingredients:
• 3 cps sugar
• 1 cp milk
• ½ cp. butter
• 1tsp. vanilla

Directions

Cake Directions:
Cream sugar and shortening until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time beating after each. Sift all dry ingredients together and add alternately with the buttermilk. Stir in the jam. Makes 3-nine inch layers or 4-thin eight inch layers. Bake at 350 degrees until center is firm (About 25 – 30 minutes).

Icing Directions:
Cook sugar, milk, and butter to softball stage (not too long). Add vanilla and beat. While the cake is still warm, stick holes in layers with a fork. Pour icing over the first layer, scooping up the icing that runs down the side and reapplying it. Add the next layer and do the same thing; then the next layer and do the same thing. You will have to keep scooping up the icing that runs down the side and reapplying it until it sets.

*The secret to a moist cake is not to beat the batter too long and to poke lots of holes in the cake to allow plenty of icing to soak down into it.