Spice Cake with Mrs. Kostyra
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- Yield Serves 8 to 10
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more for pan
- 4 cups cake flour, not self-rising, plus more for pan
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon ground mace
- Pinch of ground cloves
- 1 1/2 cups dark-brown sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- Orange Glaze
- Confectioners' sugar, for dusting
Directions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour an 8-by-8-by-2-inch baking pan. In a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, allspice, salt, nutmeg, mace, and cloves three times.
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In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs one at a time, beating to combine after each addition. Alternate adding the flour mixture and milk to the butter mixture, starting and ending with the flour mixture.
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Pour the batter into the prepared pan, and bake until cake is golden brown and a cake tester inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 1 hour. Transfer pan to a wire rack to cool for 10 minutes. Invert cake onto a plate, remove pan, and invert cake again onto the rack, so it's top side up.
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Using a toothpick, poke holes all over the top of the cake. Brush top and sides of cake with glaze while the cake is still warm; let cool.
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Dust the cake with confectioners' sugar, place on a serving platter, and serve.
I made this, trying to replicate my wedding cake. It was very, very close. Excellent. You can see my results here: http://marthaandme.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/martha-didnt-come-to-my-anni...
If you used regular four that is why. It calls for cake flour and not regular self rising flour. They are different.
I made this cake and as it was rising in the oven it spilled all over the oven, evidently there is an error with the size of pan. What a mess I had. I phoned the offices of Martha Stewart and advised them of the problem, and they said that was the recipe. I think 4 c of flour
4 teasp. baking powder?
having difficulty with comment -- 4 cups of flour
4 cups of flour
I made this cake and as it was rising in the oven it spilled all over the oven, evidently there is an error with the size of pan. What a mess I had. I phoned the offices of Martha Stewart and advised them of the problem, and they said that was the recipe. I think 4 c of flour
My cake turned out beautiful but there's no way this much batter can fit in an 8*8 baking pan. I made a 9-inch and a 8-inch round cake without changing the ingredients at all. This is however a very good thing because the cake is delicious.
Clicking on the Orange Glaze Recipe is giving me an error message.
I have a brother who loves spicecake and I think I will try this one for him because it sounds great. Of course, I love all recipes from Mrs. Kostyra.