Aunt Fannie's Spice Cake (Photos)

One thing the wife (MHNBPF) brought with her to the marriage (in addition to a knockout Cheerleader's body) was an expert's ability to bake Aunt Fannie's Spice Cake. Aunt Fannie was one of six aunts on her mother's side of the family. She taught the recipe to the wife when she was six or seven. By the time we married she had cooked the cake a hundred times. When you taste it, you'll know why.

This is a very simple cake. No mixer needed. Set the oven to 325 and by the time it is preheated, you will have the batter mixed and in the bunt pan. The bunt pan in this post is the one we received as a wedding gift from someone over 42 years ago. There is no telling how many times this cake recipe has passed through the pan.

You'll need:

Oven preheated to 325.

A bunt pan, tube pan or suitably sized cake pan that has been lubricated with butter or shortening or oil and dusted with 2 or 3 Tablespoons of Sugar. The sugar dusting gives the cake crust a wonderful sweet crunch.

2 cups self rising flour
2 cups sugar plus a couple of Tablespoons to dust coat the pan before adding the batter.
3 eggs
2 small jars of prune/applesauce baby food
1 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1 cup chopped pecans



You can half this recipe if you like, but I can't imagine why you'd want to lose half of the finished cake.

The original recipe used 2 jars of plumb baby food. Evidently they don't make plumb baby food anymore and it also no longer comes in a jar, but now is packed in little rectangular plastic and foil packs.

Add flour, sugar and spices to a mixing bowl and mix to disperse the spices. Then add eggs, oil and baby food and mix with a spatula and then the pecans. The batter is somewhat wet.



Here is the pan, oiled with sugar dusting.



Add the batter:







Into the oven. Baking time is about an hour and fifteen minutes. Thump it and insert a tooth pic. When it comes out clean the cake is done. All ovens cook differently and your cooking time will likely vary some.



The pan has been dusted with sugar and the cake only needs to cool for five minutes before turning it out of the pan. If you allow it to cool much more then that, it will seal to the bunt pan and you'll wind up digging it out with a spoon.



The wife made us one yesterday. This one is for my people at work tomorrow.



Here is a MD sized piece of yesterday's cake.



Absolutely anyone can bake this cake. My experience is that it is always a hit. Although I have now learned to control my gluttony somewhat, in the good old days I could eat half of one in a single night all by myself.


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