Spud Spice Cake

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 1 3/4 cups sugar
• 1 cup cold mashed potatoes
• 3/4 cup shortening
• 3 eggs
• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup buttermilk or 1 cup sour milk
• 3/4 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
• 1/4 cup butter
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 3 tablespoons milk
• confectioners' sugar

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees f.
• 2 cream together sugar, potato, shortening.
• 3 add eggs one at a time to mixture.
• 4 sift flour, cinnamon, nutmeh and salt.
• 5 add baking soda to milk.
• 6 add wet and dry ingredients alternately to creamed mixture.
• 7 mix in walnuts.
• 8 pour in 2 8 in cakes pans that have been greased and floured.
• 9 frosting: melt butter in saucepan.
• 10 stir in brown sugar.
• 11 cook low heat 2 minutes.
• 12 add milk and bring to full boil.
• 13 cool to lukewarm.
• 14 mix in enough confectioners sugar to spread easily on cake.