Ingredients

How to make it

  • Combine together buttermilk, baking soda and vanilla.
  • Let stand.
  • Beat together, in a separate bowl, crisco, salt, sugar and eggs until creamy.
  • Sift together, in another bowl, cocoa, allspice, cinnamon and nutmeg.
  • Take the sifted spices and combine them with the sifted flour. FLOUR MUST BE SIFTED.
  • Take the bowl with the creamed crisco/sugar mixture and gradually beat in flour and spice mixture and the buttermilk mixture.
  • You want to add 1 spoonfuls of flour then a little buttermilk.
  • ALWAYS end with the buttermilk mixture.
  • Beat until smooth.
  • Bake at 350 degrees in 9 inch cake pans.
  • Cool.
  • Frost with your favorite cream cheese frosting.

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    " It was not good "
    ALF ate it and said...
    I was disappointed with this cake. Took forever to bake and was not much better than a mix. Sorry.
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  • krumkake 16 years ago
    You are an ANGEL to give up this family secret!! This sounds absolutely wonderful, and my whole family loves spice cake - I can't wait to try this one...
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