Clove Tube Cake Food

CLOVE CAKE--MCCALL COOK BOOK VERSION

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 10-12 cup Bundt pan (I use Wilton's Cake Release and cakes slide out of their tin with ease!).
• Sift 2 3/4 cups cake flour with the cloves, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and salt into a medium-sized bowl. Set aside. Toss remaining 1/4 cup of flour with the raisins. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, beat at medium speed the butter until light creamy. Gradually add the sugar, 1/2 a cup at a time, until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes.
• Blend the beaten eggs into the sugar mixture at medium speed, scraping the sides down using a rubber spatula.
• At low speed, alternately blend into the sugar-egg mixture the dry ingredients (in thirds) and the the buttermilk (in halves), beginning and ending with the dry ingredients. Beat ONLY until blended; stir in the floured raisins by hand.
• Pour the batter into the prepared Bundt pan; bake at 60-65 minutes or until a cake tester or toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Cool cake in pan, on wire rack, for 10 minutes. Gently loosen, with a dull knife, the edges of the cake; turn out cake onto a rack. Cool completely, about an hour. This is a large, moist cake that keeps very well.
• Serve plain, with a dusting of powdered sugar, an orange-flavoured glaze or orange-flavoured cream cheese frosting.

100 YEAR OLD CLOVE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350F.
• Cream butter and sugar.
• Beat eggs well and add.
• Sift flour and spices together.
• Stir baking soda with 1/3 of the milk.
• Mix with egg/sugar mixture.
• Add rest of milk, alternating with flour mixture.
• Pour into a greased 10 inch tube pan.
• Bake 45-55 mins
• HINT: If you dont have sour milk, add a tablespoon of vinegar to the milk to sour it.

ORANGE CLOVE POUND CAKE WITH STRAWBERRIES

Steps:

• For cake:
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter 10-inch-diameter angel food cake pan. Stir cake flour, baking powder and salt in medium bowl to blend. Beat butter, sugar, orange peel and cloves in medium bowl until light and creamy. Mix in vanilla extract. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add egg whites and beat until well blended, about 2 minutes. Beat in dry ingredients alternately with milk in 3 additions.
• Spoon batter into pan. Smooth top. Bake until tester inserted near center of cake comes out clean, about 45 minutes. Cool cake in pan on rack. Turn out onto platter. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover; let stand at room temperature.)
• For glaze:
• Mix powdered sugar and orange juice in small bowl. Drizzle glaze over cake. Let stand until glaze sets, about 30 minutes.
• Mix strawberries and 1/4 cup sugar in medium bowl. Let stand at room temperature until juices form, about 20 minutes. Cut cake into slices and place on plates. Spoon strawberry mixture and sweetened whipped cream alongside cake and serve.