Southern Blackberry Jam Cake Recipes

BLACKBERRY JAM CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325.
• Grease and flour cake pan. Original recipe calls for tube pan, but I've always used 9 x 13.
• In large mixing bowl, cream together butter, sugar and oil until light and fluffy.
• Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Beat in sour cream and jam.
• Sift or stir together flour, soda and spices. Reserve a small amount to coat the dates, raisins and nuts. Stir remaining dry ingredients into jam mixture.
• Stir in flour-coated fruits and nuts.
• Pour batter into prepared cake pan and bake for approximately 1 to 1 1/2 hours (will depend on which type of pan you use) or until it tests done.

BLACKBERRY JAM CAKE WITH CARAMEL ICING

Steps:

• Soak the raisins in the whisky for at least 30 minutes or overnight.
• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Grease a 10-inch bundt pan and coat with the bread crumbs.
• Cream the butter in a mixing bowl. Add the sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time.
• Sift together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, allspice and cocoa and set aside. Combine the buttermilk and vanilla. Fold the flour mixture into the butter mixture, alternating with the buttermilk mixture in these proportions: 1/3 flour mixture, 1/2 buttermilk, 1/3 flour mixture, remaining buttermilk, remaining flour mixture. Do not beat.
• Drain the raisins and fold them into the batter along with the jam and walnuts. Pour into the prepared pan and bake for 60 to 70 minutes, or until the cake is firm and bounces back in the center. Cool for 5 minutes, then unmold onto a rack.
• To make the icing: Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the brown sugar and continue stirring for 2 minutes. Slowly pour in the milk and bring the mixture to a boil. Remove from the heat and stir in the vanilla and confectioners' sugar. Beat until creamy and smooth. Thin with a little milk or whisky, if needed. Drizzle over the warm cake.

PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON'S FAVORITE BLACKBERRY JAM CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 2 9-inch round cake pans, dust with flour, and line pan bottoms with waxed paper.
• Whisk flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda, and salt in a bowl until thoroughly combined. Stir buttermilk and vanilla extract in a separate small bowl.
• Beat sugar and butter in a large mixing bowl, using an electric mixer on medium speed, until mixture is light yellow and fluffy. Scrape down the sides often while beating. Beat in egg and egg whites thoroughly, then beat 3/4 cup of blackberry jam into mixture.
• Stir 1/3 cup flour mixture and 1/2 of the buttermilk mixture into moist ingredients, using a wooden spoon. Beat in 1/3 of flour mixture, remaining buttermilk mixture, and remaining flour mixture to make a batter. Spread batter evenly into prepared cake pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into center of a cake comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes. Let cakes cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing, peeling off waxed paper, and letting cakes finish cooling on wire racks.
• Place a cake layer, bottom side facing up, onto a cake plate. Spread remaining 3/4 cup of blackberry jam evenly over the cake; top with second cake layer with bottom side facing down.

OLD-FASHIONED JAM CAKE

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine raisins and pineapple; let stand for at least 30 minutes. , In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine dry ingredients; gradually add to creamed mixture alternately with jam and buttermilk, beating well after each addition. Stir in raisin mixture and nuts. , Spread into two greased and floured 9-in. round baking pans. Bake at 350° for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. , For icing, in a large saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Stir in sugar and milk. Bring to a boil. Remove from the heat; cool until just warm. Pour into a large bowl; beat in enough confectioners' sugar to achieve a spreading consistency. Spread frosting between layers and over the top and sides of cake.

BLACKBERRY JAM CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°. Dissolve soda in buttermilk. Cream butter and gradually add sugar; add egg yolks. Sift together flour and spices. Add to creamed mixture alternately with the buttermilk mixture. Add vanilla and jam. Fold in the beaten egg whites. Bake in a well-greased, deep 10-inch tube or Bundt pan in a 300° oven for 15 minutes, then at 350° for 15 minutes, and then at 360° for 30 to 40 minutes. Test with cake tester before removing from oven. Remove from oven, unmold cake to a rack, and cool.

BLACKBERRY JAM CAKE I

Steps:

• Combine flour, baking powder, salt, cocoa, cinnamon, and allspice.
• Dissolve soda in buttermilk, stirring well.
• Cream butter or margarine and sugar, beating well. Add egg yolks, beating mixture well. Mix flour mixture into the creamed mixture alternately with the buttermilk mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Fold in blackberry jam. Pour batter into a greased and floured 10 inch bundt pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 45 to 50 minutes, or until cake tests done. Cool in pan for 15 minutes. Remove from pan, and cool complete.
• Combine confectioners' sugar, milk, butter or margarine, and vanilla. Beat until mixture is smooth. Spoon over cooled cake