Last week we celebrated Mr. A Southern Soul’s birthday! We had lots of fun enjoying a dinner of his favorite foods and laughed a lot at the funny cards the boys and I picked out for him. Soon, it was time to break out in song, light a few candles and present the cake.
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Well, I did make a homemade gingerbread cake but of course, I broke tradition and did not bake up a layer cake with loads of icing. Truth be told, I’m not much of a cake person and really don’t like icing. I know, it’s not my birthday, so I should get over it.
The great thing is, Big Sweetie is such a great guy, loves my cooking and did not mind one bit that I came up with a little something new to celebrate his day. This year, I chose spice cake and he LOVED IT! It turned out great and was so pretty from the swirl design thanks to my new Nordic Ware pan. Who needs icing when you can have all this goodness, right?
Moist cake flavored with warm spices then topped with a sweet glaze that’s super easy to make!
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 tables cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon ginger
- 1 teaspoon allspice
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 cup butter (2 sticks butter) softened
- 2 cups packed brown sugar
- 3 eggs – room temperature
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 1 cup milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease and flour 1 bundt pan.
- Mix flour, cornstarch, baking powder, salt and spices in medium bowl. Set aside.
- Beat butter and brown sugar in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, 1 at a time.Mix in vanilla.
- Starting beating in flour mixture alternately with milk on low speed until just blended. Pour batter into prepared pan.
- Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Remove from pan and let cool competently. Drizzle with vanilla glaze and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
- Vanilla glaze – stir together 2 cups confectioners sugar with 3 – 4 tablespoons of milk until smooth.
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This cake was so delicious!! I followed the recipe to the letter but left off the glaze because it was delicious as is. It was very moist and full of flavor. I will definitely be making this again!
So glad you enjoyed this recipe! Thanks for leaving a kind review! ~Donya
This recipe turned out great! I was using another recipe as my base recipe and it had turned out good flavor wise (all same ingredients, just different measurements) so I only used 2 tsp cinnamon and 1 tsp ginger, 1/2 tsp all spice & 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg. Next time I will try it with the full spice measurements. The texture & crumb of the cake was perfect. Thank you for sharing!
Hey there Lacey!
Thank you so much for your kind words of support! I am so glad that you enjoyed this recipe, spice cake is absolutely delicious, especially this time of year! If you liked this recipe, you should check out my Apple Spice Cake recipe, it’s an tasty cake recipe that has very similar flavors but it’s a lot easier to make. Thank you so much for your phenomenal rating and your support, if you ever have any questions about a recipe please feel free to reach out!
~Donya