Poke & Pour Spice Cake

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: 1 hr 5 mins
• 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.