OLD FASHIONED BLACKBERRY SPICE CAKE
Preparation time: 25 minutes
Cooking time: 35 minutes
Yield: 12 servings

2 sticks (1 cup) butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 large eggs, beaten
3 cups flour
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon each, ground: cloves, nutmeg, ginger
1 cup buttermilk
1 1/2 cups blackberry jam
1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Beat butter and sugar in bowl of electric
mixer until well mixed. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after
each addition.

2. Stir together flour, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, cloves, nutmeg
and ginger in medium bowl. Alternately add flour mixture and
buttermilk to butter mixture, beating well after each addition,
beginning and ending with flour. Beat in jam. Stir in nuts by hand.

3. Pour batter evenly into three greased and floured 9-inch round cake
pans. Bake until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean,
about 35 minutes. Cool 10 minutes in pans; turn out onto wire racks.
Cool completely.