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Nutmeg Spice Cake

    This Nutmeg Spice cake is frosted with a Rum Buttercream and topped with toffee candy and caramel. Makes a great holiday dessert.

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    Nutmeg Spice Cake with Rum Buttercream and Cinnamon Toffee

    Oh, my! This Cake! It’s amazing what some extra nutmeg will do to a spice cake! I loved it. This cake, with the toffee, took me two hours to make from start to finish. Start with baking the cake. While that’s in the oven, make the toffee. When the cakes are done and cooling you can make the frosting. By the time the frosting is done, the cakes and toffee should be cooled and ready to assemble. There’s no excuse not to make this cake.

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    So, what have you been watching on TV this season? Me, I’m all about Survivor, Scandal, Once Upon A Time, and How to Get Away with Murder. My current guilty pleasure show, that I watch by myself while baking, is American Horror Story. I know, I know. It’s complete garbage, but I gotta admit that it just sucks me in!

    It’s completely dumb and would never really happen in real life, but I just put it on and get to work. I have it on in the background and I listen and watch. Season two is getting a bit out of control with all the plot lines and crazy scenarios, but  I keep watching.

    It’s free, I can binge watch, it takes up no brain cells to keep up with it and it’s been my substitute for The Walking Dead.

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    I was able to watch two shows while I baked this cake. Loved it!

    I think another factor to baking the cake relatively quickly is that my daughter had a play-date over. The two girls stayed out of my hair and out of the kitchen while I baked, cleaned, cooked, cleaned, whipped, frosted, decorated, and cleaned some more. I think I might have spent more time cleaning rather than actually spending hands on baking time.

    Gotta love that play-date time. It’s golden in my household!

    Nutmeg Spice Cake

    I hope that you dig into this cake this holiday season. Make it for your holiday dinner party, your gift wrapping group of gals, your work office party, or just to sit around with your special someone and watch your favorite TV show. It’s that good!

    Nutmeg Spice Cake

    This recipe is part three of a three-part series including Cinnamon Toffee and Rum Buttercream Frosting.

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    Yield: 1 cake

    Nutmeg Spice Cake

    Nutmeg Spice Cake

    Nutmeg Spice Cake with Rum Buttercream and toffee pieces come together quickly and easily to make any day just a bit more special.

    Prep Time 10 minutes
    Cook Time 40 minutes
    Inactive Time 2 hours
    Total Time 2 hours 50 minutes

    Ingredients

    • 1/4 C butter
    • 1/4 C unsweetened applesauce
    • 1 1/2 C sugar
    • 1 tsp vanilla extract
    • 3 eggs
    • 2 cups flour
    • 1 tsp baking powder
    • 1/2 tsp baking soda
    • 1 tsp nutmeg (fresh is best if you have it)
    • 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
    • 1/4 tsp ground ginger
    • 1/4 tsp ground cloves
    • 1/2 tsp salt
    • 1 C buttermilk

    Instructions

    1. Preheat the oven to 350℉ and prepare two 8" round cake pans. Grease and flour or line them with parchment.
    2. Beat the butter and applesauce with a paddle attachment until combined. Add in the sugar and vanilla and beat for 2 minutes. Add in the eggs one at a time.
    3. Sift the dry ingredients together. Add a third of the flour mixture followed by half of the buttermilk into the mixer. Scrape the bowl as needed and add another third of the flour with the remaining of the buttermilk. Scrape the bowl again and mix in the remaining flour.
    4. Divide the batter between the two cake pans and bake for 35 - 40 minutes.
    5. While the cake is cooking, you can make your Cinnamon Toffee.
    6. Remove from the oven and cool.
    7. While the cakes are cooling, make your Rum Buttercream.
    8. When the cake is cool, frost it, add some caramel to the edge of the cake, and add the toffee shards to the top.

    Notes

    If you are going to refrigerate the cake, do not add the toffee pieces. Only add them before you are ready to serve the cake.

    Recipe from Flour

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    Karyn Granrud

    Karyn Granrud

    I'm Karyn, a mom and wife, and I founded this little baking blog. Baking and making desserts have been my passion since I was a kid. I love experimenting with different flavors and sharing delicious recipes with all of you. Read more.

    16 thoughts on “Nutmeg Spice Cake”

      1. If Parenthood is available on Netflix, I’ll add it to my list. I’ve heard good things about it. I’m always a few years behind on tv shows…

    1. Greetings from Ohio! I’m bored at work so I decided to check out your blog on my iphone during lunch break.

      I enjoy the information you present here and can’t wait to take a look when I get home.

      I’m shocked at how fast your blog loaded on my cell phone
      .. I’m not even using WIFI, just 3G .. Anyways, excellent site!

      1. Well, that’s good to know 🙂 Sorry you were board at work last week. Did you get to work today? I saw all the crazy snow in Ohio! Stay warm!

    2. You might want to credit the creator of this cake – Joanne Chang, the owner of Flour in Boston, who wrote the cookbook “Flour” where this recipe came from.

      1. Thanks so much for letting me know. It was added back in 2014 when the post was first written, but that was lost over the years (with a few other details). I just went back into the post and updated the recipe card with the information.

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