Sugar & Spice & Everything Nice Cake With Spiced Butterc

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup shortening
• 1 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 3/4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups butter, softened
• 4 cups sifted powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons orange juice
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

Recipe

• 1 cake:.
• 2 cream shortening, gradually add sugars, beating well at medium speed with an electric mixer. add eggs, one at a time, beat well after each addition.
• 3 combine flour and next 5 ingredients. add flour mixture creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, begin and end with flour. mix just until blended after each addition. stir in vanilla.
• 4 grease two 9 inch round cake pans, and line with wax paper, grease wax paper. pour batter into prepared pans, bake at 350f for 30-35 minues or until wooden pick comes out clean.cool in pans 10 minutes, remove from pans, cool completely on wire racks. spread with spiced buttercream frosting.
• 5 spiced buttercream frosting:.
• 6 cream butter at medium speed with an elctric mixer, gradually add sugar, beat until light and fluffy. add orange juice, beat until spreading consistency, stir in cinnamon and cloves. 3 cups.