Poke & Pour Spice Cake
- 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
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Butter Sauce
- 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 1⁄3 cup water
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°. Spray and flour 12-cup fluted pan (I use Baker's Joy).
- In a large bowl, combine your dry ingredients.
- In a mixing bowl, beat your brown sugar, water, oil, molasses and eggs for 3 minutes.
- Stir in the combined dry ingredients mixing well.
- Pour batter into prepared pan.
- Bake 45-55 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- As the cake is baking, combine the buttersauce ingredients in a saucepan over low heat, heating until butter melts.
- Prick hot cake deeply every inch with a long-tined fork.
- Spoon hot sauce over hot cake in pan. Let stand 30 minutes, invert onto serving plate. Serve warm or cool.
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I left the Dakotas and transplanted myself in "the South" in 1987. Love it here! I work for a utilities company and love old Hollywood classic movies. I also play the keyboards.