Aunt Murna's Jam Cake

Ingredients

170 gr raisins
230 ml pineapple with juice
450 gr butter
4 eggs
325 gr homemade blackberry jam
160 ml buttermilk
325 gr all purpose flour
200 gr sugar
28 gr unsweetened cocoa
5 gr baking soda
3 gr cinnamon
2 gr nutmeg
140 gr pecans
450 gr brown sugar
120 ml milk
700 gr confectioners sugar
9 round cake pans

Instructions

minutes or until cakes test done. Cool in pans 10 minutes on a wire rack before removing to rack. For icing, melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir in brown sugar and milk; bring to a boil. Remove from heat. Cool just until warm; beat in enough confectioners' sugar until icing is of spreading consistency. Add more sugar for thicker icing; more milk to thin it. Frost cooled Mrs. Robinson Note: I remember Aunt Murna telling me that she created her Jam Cake recipe as a very young girl. Through the years she made improvements, such as soaking the raisins in crushed pineapple. This cake is a favorite at our annual family reunions and at Christmastime. Recipe by Mrs. Eddie Robinson, Lawrenceburg, KY. ----