Old Fashioned Spice Cake

SERVES 12
2 cups sugar
1 cup butter, softened
4 eggs
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 cup buttermilk

Cream sugar and butter.
Add eggs, beat for 1 minute.
Mix dry ingredients.
Add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk.
Beat for 1 minute.
Pour into greased and floured 9x13 pan.
Bake at 350* for 40 minutes.

I used half butter and half vegetable oil to make the cake moist.

This was the 1st cake I ever made from scratch when I was just 18 yrs old. it turned out so delicious, actually come to think of it mine was an Applesauce Spice Cake with a Cream Cheese Icing, it turned out soooooo wonderful, I was a young newlywed, and it was his birthday in June!

I have it in the oven right now.

This is very good. Has a lighter flavor. Very fluffy cake.

I love Spice Cake, janie. In fact, I just make them from the store-bought box mixes- and enjoy them w/ fluffy white- or cream cheese frosting.

I used to have a ginger-snap cookie recipe that used a spice cake mix- YUM!