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      Title: McCalls Best Spice Cake
 Categories: Cakes
      Yield: 10 Servings
 
  2 1/2 c  Flour; sifted
      1 ts Baking powder
      1 ts Baking soda
      1 ts Salt
      1 ts Cinnamon
    1/2 ts Cloves
    1/8 ts Black pepper
    1/2 c  Margarine; softened
    1/2 c  Brown sugar
      1 c  Sugar
      2    Eggs
      1 ts Vanilla extract
  1 1/4 c  Buttermilk
 
  Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease well and flour two 8" pans or a 13x9"
  baking pan. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, soda,
  cinnamon, cloves, pepper. In a large bowl use electric mixer at
  high speed to beat butter, sugars, eggs, and vanilla until light
  and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Occasionally scrape the sides of the
  bowl with a scrapper. At low speed, beat in flour mixture (in
  fourths) alternately with buttermilk (in thirds) beginning and
  ending with the flour. Beat until smooth about one minute. Pour
  batter into prepared pans; bake until surface springs back when
  gently touched with fingertips. Layers 30-35 minutes and oblong
  45 minutes. Cool in pan on wire rack. Frost as desired.
  
  Recipe by McCalls Cookbook, February 1979

  Taken from McCalls Cookbook given to me by Uncle Edward, Aunt
  Tootsie, Sharon Kay and Beverly as a wedding gift. I use white
  frosting for this but you can use caramel, mocha or spiced as
  well.
  
  Recipe FROM: Recipe Club, October 1994

  Posted by: Debbie Holland (HXRH11B)
 
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