Cake Jam Cake Recipes by Nadine

posted by Nadine 12-03-101 3:56 PM

Jam Cake

1 cup butter
2 cups white sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon baking soda
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup blackberry preserves
1 cup chopped pecans
1 cup shredded coconut
1 cup raisins


Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease one 10 inch tube pan and set aside.

Cream together the butter and sugar. Add eggs separately, beating well after each. Sift together soda and flour; add alternately with buttermilk to creamed mixture. Mix well. Add jam, pecans, coconut and raisins. Mix well and pour into prepared pan. Bake for one hour.




Blackberry Jam Cake

1 Duncan Hines cake mix
12 oz. seedless blackberry jam


Bake cake as directed on package plus 1/2 tsp. oil. While cake is still hot, take a toothpick and poke holes in top of cake. Spread 12 oz. blackberry jam over cake. Set cake in the freezer for 30 minutes to cool completely, then frost.


Cream Cheese Icing

4 oz. cream cheese, softened
1 lb powdered sugar
1/2 cup Crisco shortening
1 1/2 tablespoons cream


Beat well, approximately 30 minutes The recipe above is enough icing for a 9 x 13 inch cake. For a two layer cake double the icing recipe.



Jam Cake

1 c Seedless raisins
1 cn Crushed pineapple (8-1/2 oz)
2 1/2 c All-purpose flour, sifted
1 ts Baking soda
1 ts Cinnamon
1 ts Nutmeg
1/2 ts Cloves
1/2 c Shortening
1/2 c Butter or margarine
1 c Sugar
5 ea Eggs
1 c Seedless blackberry jam -(12-oz jar)
2/3 c Buttermilk
1 c Pecans, chopped
Confectioners' sugar


Soak raisins for several hours or overnight in the crushed pineapple.

Sift together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Cream shortening and butter or margarine in large bowl of electric mixer. Gradually add sugar and beat until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Blend in jam. Alternately add sifted dry ingredients and buttermilk to the creamed mixture. Blend in pineapple, raisins and pecans. Pour batter into 13x9x2-inch pan that has been greased and floured.

Bake at 350 degrees f. for 55 to 60 minutes or until done. Dust with confectioners' sugar; cut in squares. This will freeze.

From: Florence P. Hanford's Television Kitchen Meals, 1964.
Shared by: June Hoffman, 9/93

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