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Holiday Spice Cake

This is a perfectly spiced holiday cake that will be the perfect sweet treat to end

any family holiday meal!

Ingredients: at a time, scraping down bowl and fully
1 cup softened butter incorporating each one before adding the

½ cups granulated sugar next. Beat in vanilla and orange zest.
3 large eggs
½ tsp vanilla extract In a separate bowl, whisk together flour,

Zest of one orange baking powder and soda, salt and spices.
2 ½ cups all-purpose flour

1 ½ tsp baking powder Add ½ of the flour mixture to the butter
½ tsp baking soda mixture and beat on low speed until
½ tsp kosher salt incorporated. Add ½ of the buttermilk and

2 tsp cinnamon beat to combine. Repeat with remaining
2 tsp ginger flour mixture and buttermilk.

½ tsp nutmeg
⅛ tsp cloves Scrape cake batter into prepared pan and
¾ cup buttermilk bake for about 45 minutes and sides are

starting to pull away from edges of pan. Let
Instructions: cool 10 minutes in pan, then use a small

Preheat oven to 350ºF. Prepare a 10 or 12- soft spatula to gently go around inner edge
cup bundt pan by greasing and flouring. of pan before placing a cooling rack on
top and flipping the whole thing over. Top

Use electric mixer on medium speed to with desired icing and/or toppings.
beat together butter and sugar until very

light and fluffy, 4 minutes. Add eggs one Enjoy!

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