Chocolate Spice Cake

I have just a very few recipe books at home...most recipes are written on scraps of paper here and there and shoved between the pages of the better cookbooks. One such recipe is written on a paper so thin with wear that I really am glad to post it here if just to preserve it. I haven't a clue where it came from originally but it is an old standby for me. Rich and moist with a hint of spice, this cake disappears quickly in my home.

• Ingredients
• 3/4 cup butter or margarine
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp. cloves
• 1/2 tsp allspice
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 3/4 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 cup cocoa
• 1/2 cup boiling water
• 2 cups flour

• 

Cream the butter. Beat in the sugar and add eggs one at a time.

Beat until creamy.


Dissolve soda in the buttermilk.

Sift all dry ingredients together and add alternatively to the first mixture with the buttermilk. Dissolve cocoa with the boiling water and add at the end.

Bake in a 350 oven for 30 to 40 minutes. Ice with your favorite frosting if you choose although it is fine just the way it is.

NOTE: For these pictures I was making a double batch in order to put in large pyrex 'squares' pan.