AUNT GIN'S JAM CAKE (Windstone Farms Favorite)
Ingredients:
2 cups self-rising flour
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
3 teaspoons cinnamon
3 tablespoons cocoa
1 cup chopped nuts
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup oil
3 egg
1 cup buttermilk
1 1/2 cup blackberry jam
3 tablespoons evaporated milk
Grease tube pan and line botom with waxed paper. Mix dry ingredients ans set aside. Cream oil and sugar, then add eggs and beat well. Stir in buttermilk adn add dry ingredients, mixing well. Add jam and evaporated milk. Pour into tube pan. Bake at 350 degrees one hour, or until a toothpick inserted come out clean. Top with caramel icing.
To make caramel icing:
Pour 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar into metal mixing bowl and set aside. Mix 1 1/2 cups brown sugar, 1/4 stick butter and 1/3 cup milk in saucepan. Boil 1 1/2 minutes. While still hot, pour over confectioners' sugar amd beat with mixer until smooth and thick enough to spread.
