Grandma M's Toasted Nut Spice Cake
Recipe: #2802
November 19, 2011
"From my mom's cookbook, searched through a good many of her cookbooks to find this old fashioned favourite of hers. A crowd pleaser and one that has them coming back for seconds. Repeats and recipe requests when this one gets served, thank you mom!"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (112.7 g)
- Calories 424.9
- Total Fat - 15.2 g
- Saturated Fat - 2.7 g
- Cholesterol - 2.4 mg
- Sodium - 266.7 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 69 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.6 g
- Sugars - 22 g
- Protein - 3.7 g
- Calcium - 53.4 mg
- Iron - 1.3 mg
- Vitamin C - 2.2 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
If you do not have sour milk - put 1 1/4 tablespoons vinegar in cup and fill with milk, place the cup of milk in small bowl adding the remaining 1/4 cup of milk, let stand for several minutes to sour
Step 2
Cream butter and brown sugar, add egg yolks and vanilla mixing well
Step 3
In large bowl flour, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and salt and whisk together to blend
Step 4
Dissolve baking soda in sour milk, adding the sour milk and dry ingredients alternately to batter and mix well. Spread into a greased 9 x 13 pan
Step 5
Make meringue, beat egg whites until stiff, gradually add the brown sugar, continue beating until nice and smooth, Spread over cake batter, sprinkle with chopped nuts
Step 6
Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 45 to 50 minutes. Cool before serving.
Step 7
When slicing I dip the knife in hot water, makes cutting through the meringue easier and makes for nice slices
Tips
No special items needed.