JAM CAKE

By

Best of the Best from Bell's Best Cookbooks p. 196
From: Betty Davidson Upton by Patsy Tolleson, Jacksaon, MS (Book 4)

Ingredients

  • Directions:
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 6 eggs, separated
  • 2 cups seedless blackberry jam
  • 4 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
  • 1 tea. cinnamon
  • 1 tea. nutmeg
  • 2 tea. baking soda
  • 1/2 cup sour cream
  • Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy; beat egg yolks in one at a time; mix well.
  • Stir in jam.
  • Sift flour twice with spices and baking soda and add alternately with sour cream, ending with flour.
  • Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into flour/sour cream mixture.
  • Bake in 3 or 4 greased and floured 9-inch cake pans in a 350 F. oven until done, about 20 minutes.
  • Cool.
  • Fill and ice with your favorite cream icing or divinity icing.

Preparation

Step 1

As above