Recipe: My Molasses Cake Is Deliciously Different With a Spicy, Nip That You'll Love!

This is a rich, fragrant snack cake with something extra!

If you love spice cakes and want to try one that is dark, rich and bursting with flavor that has an extra spicy kick, then you need to try this family pleasing sheet cake of mine. My recipe won’t keep you stationed in the kitchen all that long either or going through countless steps to turn out one cake.  It is not my style.  I like simple, easy recipes that also need to taste great like this favorite of ours.   

My Molasses Cake hardly takes much work and stays moist with the help of some plumped raisins and added goodness of chopped nuts, if you have some on hand.  With ample molasses, brown sugar, plenty of fragrant spices and mapleline flavoring besides coffee to plump up the raisins, the taste is just incredible.


My Molasses Cake


3-1/2 cups of sifted flour
2 cups of brown sugar, firmly packed (light or dark)
1 cup of molasses, (light or dark) 
2 cups of freshly brewed strong coffee
3 large eggs
2 teaspoons of baking soda, leveled
2-1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
1-1/2 cups of raisins
1 cup of chopped nuts (if desired)
1 teaspoon of mapleline flavoring
2 teaspoons of ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons of ground cloves
1 teaspoon of ground nutmeg
½ teaspoons of black pepper
3/4 cup of corn or canola oil


Plump your raisins in the hot coffee first.  While they are soaking for a few minutes, get a mixing bowl and add the brown sugar, molasses and eggs at a time and beat through until incorporated before alternating with dry ingredients, egg mixture, oil, and the coffee plumped raisins and remaining ingredients.  

Grease a 13" x 9" pan and bake in a 350-degree oven for about 35-40 minutes, depending on how your oven is regulated.  Test with a toothpick or slender knife to see if anything sticks.

Frost with your favorite white or maple flavored icing.

ENJOY!

My Spice Cake Recipe Will Drive You Crazy With Pleasure!

My Spice Cake Supreme is bursting with flavor!

Today, I have a great cake recipe to share with you.  This is a wonderful homemade spice cake that can be made into a layer cake or sheet cake.  Without any special fancy ingredients like cake flour, this delicious recipe turns out a light and moist cake comparable to any commercial mix.

This recipe calls for sour milk or buttermilk.  If you don't have any on hand, do not fret, dear readers.  Measure out your cup of milk and return two tablespoons.  Instead measure out two tablespoons of lemon juice and add to the measured milk.  The lemon juice curdles that sweet milk and works nicely in this recipe.

Frost with your favorite white vanilla or cream cheese icing and you will really enjoy this simple cake!

My Spice Cake Supreme

This cake is moist and delicious.

2 tablespoons of molasses (dark or light)
2 cups of light brown sugar (firmly packed)
1/2 cup margarine (not spread) or vegetable shortening
2 eggs
2 cups of flour
2 teaspoons of ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon of ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon of ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
1 cup of sour milk or buttermilk 

Beat the sugar and  the margarine with your electric mixer until well creamed.

Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each one.

Sift together all the dry ingredients and keep in a separate mixing bowl.

Alternate small amounts of the dry ingredients along with the sour milk, beating well after each addition.  Try to end with the milk as your last ingredient to keep your cake extra moist.

Grease two-9 inch layer cake pans or a 9" x 13" sheet cake pan. 

Bake at 350 degrees for about 40 minutes for the sheet cake or 25-30 minutes for the layer cake.  Test with a toothpick to see if it is done.