Tennesse Jam Cake Food

GEORGIA'S TENNESSEE JAM CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease three 8 or 9 inch round cake pans and set aside.
• In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, mixing until each one is blended in. Dissolve the baking soda in the water; stir into the batter along with the blackberry jam. Combine the flour, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and salt; stir into the batter by hand, alternating with the buttermilk. Fold in the black walnuts and raisins if using. Divide the batter equally between the three pans, and spread in an even layer.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the top of the cakes spring back when lightly touched, about 35 minutes. Cool in the pans until cool enough to handle, then invert the cakes over a wire rack and remove pans to cool completely.

TENNESSE JAM CAKE

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar until creamy and sugar is dissolved. Add eggs,one at a time and beat after each addition. Mix dry ingredients together and then add alternately with buttermilk. Stir in jam by hand until mixed well. Bake in three, greased, floured, 9 inch pans in a 350 oven for 20 to 30 minutes. Remove from pan and cool on cake racks for five minutes. Turn onto wax paper, poke holes with a toothpick all over top of each layer. Pour warm filling over cake top and allow to cool.
• Prepare filling while cake bakes. Combine butter, brown sugar and buttermilk. Cook and stir over medium heat for 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla. Spread 1/3 of filling on top of each cake layer.
• Cook first three ingredients of fruit filling together to soft ball stage. Remove from heat. Beat with mixer until thick and cool. Add remaining ingredients and mix well. Spread between cake layers and then frost.
• Combine buttermilk, sugars and soda in large saucepan. Cook to soft ball stage (will hold its shape). Add butter and remove from heat. cool five minutes. Add vanilla and beat until thick and creamy with a mixer. If frosting is too thick add a small amount of cream. Frost cake.

TENNESSEE JAM CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Sift flour, salt, baking soda, and spices together, reserving 1/4 cup of flour to flour nuts, dates, and raisins. Cream together the sugar and butter. Add eggs, one at a time and mix well after each addition.
• 2. Combine buttermilk and jam. Add alternately with combined dry ingredients to the creamed mixture.
• 3. Flour the fruit and nuts and stir them into the batter. Stir in the grated apple.
• 4. Bake in 3 greased and floured 9 inch cake pans in a 350 degree oven for 30 minutes or until cake tests done. Cool on wire racks before frosting.
• 5. Brown Sugar Frosting: Combine brown sugar, butter and milk in large saucepan; bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Remove from heat; cool 10 minutes. Gradually add powdered sugar until well blended.

JAM CAKE

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar.
• Beat in eggs, one at a time.
• Sift dry ingredients together.
• Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk.
• Stir in vanilla.
• Fold jam (or preserves) into cake mixture.
• Turn into well-greased tube (angel food) or bundt pan.
• Bake at 300 deg F for 15 minutes, then raise heat to 350 deg F and bake 45 minutes.
• Let cool 15 minutes.
• Sift powdered sugar over it while still warm.

TENNESSEE JAM CAKE (VEGAN)

Steps:

• Cream together sugar and margarine.
• Add jam, vanilla, soy yogurt, and egg replacer mixed with water. Mix well.
• In another bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and spices.
• Add thus to sugar mixture alternately with soy buttermilk and stir well.
• Pour into greased and floured 9" pans, bake at 350 for 30 minutes.
• I usually frost this with a coconut-pecan frosting, which is just caramelized sugar and margarine mixed with shredded coconut, chopped pecans, and powdered sugar.

TRIPLE-LAYER TENNESSEE JAM CAKE

Steps:

• Beat the first 6 ingredients at low speed with an electric mixer for 1 minute. Scrape down sides and beat at medium speed 2 more minutes until well blended, scraping down sides if needed. Pour batter evenly into 3 greased and floured 9-inch round cake pans.
• Bake at 350 for 20-23 minutes or until cakes are light brown and spring back when lightly pressed with your finger.
• Cool in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes. Remove from pans; cool completely on wire racks.
• Place on layer on a serving platter. Spread with 1/2 of blackberry jam, leaving a 1/2-inch border. Spread a smooth, thin layer of warm Quick Caramel Frosting over jam. Repeat layers. Top with third cake layer. Spread top and sides of cake with remaining Quick Caramel Frosting, working quickly before the frosting hardens. (If frosting becomes too hard to spread, place it over low heat for 1 minute, stirring constantly.) Let cake stand 10 minutes.
• Quick Caramel Frosting:.
• Bring first 3 ingredients to boil in a 3 1/2-quart saucepan over medium heat, whisking constantly, about 2 minutes.
• Stir in milk and bring to a boil. Remove from heat. Add powdered sugar and vanilla, stirring with a wooden spoon until smooth. Use immediately.