Poke & Pour Spice Cake

Submitted by lilquiz

"I love the smell of spices. I love spice cake! The butter sauce further sweetens it and makes it wonderfully moist. Good with Cool Whip or whipped cream."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 5mins
• Ingredients: 17
• Yields: 1 cake

ingredients

• Cake

• 2 1⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1⁄4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1⁄8 teaspoon ground cardamom
• 3⁄4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 3⁄4 cup water
• 3⁄4 cup oil
• 3⁄4 cup molasses
• 2 eggs

• Butter Sauce

• 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1⁄2 cup butter
• 1⁄3 cup water

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°. Spray and flour 12-cup fluted pan (I use Baker's Joy).
2. In a large bowl, combine your dry ingredients.
3. In a mixing bowl, beat your brown sugar, water, oil, molasses and eggs for 3 minutes.
4. Stir in the combined dry ingredients mixing well.
5. Pour batter into prepared pan.
6. Bake 45-55 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
7. As the cake is baking, combine the buttersauce ingredients in a saucepan over low heat, heating until butter melts.
8. Prick hot cake deeply every inch with a long-tined fork.
9. Spoon hot sauce over hot cake in pan. Let stand 30 minutes, invert onto serving plate. Serve warm or cool.

Reviews

[sugarpea]

This is sooo decadently good. What a treat. Thank goodness we had lots of company or I'd have hurt myself. It smells as good as it tastes, baked in 45 minutes and disappeared in 15. I served it warm and made no changes.