Sugar & Spice & Everything Nice Cake With Spiced Butterc

Yummy, spice cake, but the real winner on this cake is the spiced buttercream frosting, yummy!!

• Ready In: 50 mins
• Yields: 2 layers

Ingredients

• 3⁄4 cup shortening
• 1  cup sugar
• 3⁄4 cup  firmly packed brown sugar
• 3  eggs
• 2 1⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1  teaspoon baking powder
• 3⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 3⁄4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 3⁄4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1  cup buttermilk
• 1  teaspoon vanilla extract

• Spiced Buttercream Frosting

• 1 1⁄2 cups butter, softened
• 4  cups  sifted powdered sugar
• 2  tablespoons  orange juice
• 1  teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1⁄4 teaspoon ground cloves

Directions

1. Cake:
2. Cream shortening, gradually add sugars, beating well at medium speed with an electric mixer. Add eggs, one at a time, beat well after each addition.
3. Combine flour and next 5 ingredients. Add flour mixture creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, begin and end with flour. Mix just until blended after each addition. Stir in vanilla.
4. Grease two 9 inch round cake pans, and line with wax paper, grease wax paper. Pour batter into prepared pans, bake at 350F for 30-35 minues or until wooden pick comes out clean.Cool in pans 10 minutes, remove from pans, cool completely on wire racks. Spread with spiced buttercream frosting.
5. Spiced Buttercream Frosting:
6. Cream butter at medium speed with an elctric mixer, gradually add sugar, beat until light and fluffy. Add orange juice, beat until spreading consistency, stir in cinnamon and cloves. 3 cups.