Old Fashioned Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Prep Time
20m
Bake Time
40m
Yields
9 - 12 servingsAbout this Recipe
A simple, yet, flavorful sheet cake with warm spices and a tangy cream cheese frosting. Old Fashioned Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is a great holiday dessert. It’s unfussy, yet delicious enough to impress your family and friends.
Old Fashioned Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Prep Time
20mBake Time
40mYields
9 - 12 servingsAbout this Recipe
A simple, yet, flavorful sheet cake with warm spices and a tangy cream cheese frosting. Old Fashioned Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is a great holiday dessert. It’s unfussy, yet delicious enough to impress your family and friends.
This is a Heritage Recipe
Heritage recipes are culinary treasures passed down through generations, capturing the warmth of family. These time-honored dishes from our bakers are a delicious way to connect with our roots and uphold traditions.
“This cake brings me back to eating at the kitchen counter with my Grandmother.”
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Ingredients
Old Fashioned Spice Cake
- 1 2/3 cups cake flour*
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/3 cup salted butter, room temperature
- 3/4 cup lightly packed Imperial Sugar Light Brown Sugar
- 1/2 cup Imperial Sugar Extra Fine Granulated Sugar
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 3 eggs, room temperature
- 2/3 cup buttermilk, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 6 tablespoons salted butter, room temperature
- 6 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- 3 cups Imperial Sugar Confectioners Powdered Sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Pinch fine sea salt
*Spoon & Sweep method: Use a spoon to fill measuring cup with flour until required amount is obtained. Scooping measuring cup directly into flour bag will firmly pack flour resulting in too much flour required for recipe.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease an 8 x 8-inch pan.
- Whisk together flour, spices, salt, baking powder, and soda. Set aside.
- Cream butter and sugars together until combined and creamy. Gradually beat in oil. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition, and scraping down sides and bottom of bowl as needed.
- Stir buttermilk and vanilla together. Add flour mixture in three additions, alternating with buttermilk. Mix just until combined.
- Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Let cool on a wire rack.
- Once cake is just barely warm, make frosting.
- Beat butter and cream cheese together until no lumps remain. Mix in vanilla, powdered sugar, and salt on low speed. Once combined, increase speed to medium and beat until fluffy.
- Spread frosting on the slightly warm, or completely cooled, cake. Serve.
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Old Fashioned Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Prep Time
20mBake Time
40mYields
9 - 12 servingsAbout this Recipe
A simple, yet, flavorful sheet cake with warm spices and a tangy cream cheese frosting. Old Fashioned Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is a great holiday dessert. It’s unfussy, yet delicious enough to impress your family and friends.
Ingredients
Old Fashioned Spice Cake
- 1 2/3 cups cake flour*
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/3 cup salted butter, room temperature
- 3/4 cup lightly packed Imperial Sugar Light Brown Sugar
- 1/2 cup Imperial Sugar Extra Fine Granulated Sugar
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 3 eggs, room temperature
- 2/3 cup buttermilk, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 6 tablespoons salted butter, room temperature
- 6 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- 3 cups Imperial Sugar Confectioners Powdered Sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Pinch fine sea salt
*Spoon & Sweep method: Use a spoon to fill measuring cup with flour until required amount is obtained. Scooping measuring cup directly into flour bag will firmly pack flour resulting in too much flour required for recipe.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease an 8 x 8-inch pan.
- Whisk together flour, spices, salt, baking powder, and soda. Set aside.
- Cream butter and sugars together until combined and creamy. Gradually beat in oil. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition, and scraping down sides and bottom of bowl as needed.
- Stir buttermilk and vanilla together. Add flour mixture in three additions, alternating with buttermilk. Mix just until combined.
- Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Let cool on a wire rack.
- Once cake is just barely warm, make frosting.
- Beat butter and cream cheese together until no lumps remain. Mix in vanilla, powdered sugar, and salt on low speed. Once combined, increase speed to medium and beat until fluffy.
- Spread frosting on the slightly warm, or completely cooled, cake. Serve.
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