1880 Chocolate Spice Cake with Icing

⏱ 40 mins 🍽 1 cake, 12 serving(s) 🏷 Dessert

This is a vintage chocolate spice cake recipe from 1880, complete with a fudgy icing. The spiced buttermilk cake is flavoured with cocoa, cinnamon, clove and nutmeg. After baking, a butter, brown sugar and cocoa icing is spread over the hot cake and broiled until bubbly and light brown. It yields one 9x13 inch cake, suitable for about 12 servings.

1880 Chocolate Spice Cake with Icing

Ingredients

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 egg
  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon cocoa
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon clove
  • 1 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
  2. Stir the baking soda into the buttermilk until dissolved, then set this mixture aside.
  3. In a separate bowl, cream together the sugar, butter, and buttermilk.
  4. Sift all the dry ingredients together into another bowl.
  5. Add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture alternately with the buttermilk, beating thoroughly after each addition.
  6. Transfer the batter into a greased and floured 9x13 inch pan.
  7. Bake for 25-30 minutes. Prepare to spread icing over the hot cake.
  8. To make the icing, combine 5 T. butter, 7 T. brown sugar, 5 T. cream, and 1/2 cup cocoa.
  9. Spread this icing over the hot cake, then return it to the oven and broil until the topping bubbles and turns a light brown colour.

Nutrition (per serving)

Sodium284400 mg

Recipe details

CategoryDessert
AuthorCJAY8248