Poke & Pour Spice Cake

lilquiz's Note:

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.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 5 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 55 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 1 cake

Cake

• 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
• ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
• 1⁄8; teaspoon ground cardamom
• ¾ cup firmly packed brown sugar
• ¾ cup water
• ¾ cup oil
• ¾ cup molasses
• 2 eggs

Butter Sauce

• 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• ½ 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.