Recipes – Cherry Spice Cake

Cherry Spice Cake
Recipe Type: Dessert
Ingredients
  • 1 1/2 C sugar
  • 2/3 C shortening
  • 2 eggs + 1 egg yolk
  • 2 1/2 C flour
  • 1 t baking soda
  • 1 t baking powder
  • 1 t cloves
  • 1 t nutmeg
  • 1 t cinnamon
  • 3/4 C buttermilk
  • 1 C tart cherries
Instructions
  1. Cream shortening and sugar, add eggs and beat.
  2. Mix 1/2 C flour with cherries.
  3. Combine remaining flour with soda, baking powder and spices; add alternately with buttermilk to creamed mixture.
  4. Fold in cherry flour mixture. Bake in greased layer cake pans at 375 degrees F for 30 minutes or until cake tests done.
  5. Frost with icing.