Aunt Murna's Jam Cake

Ingredients

1 c raisins
8 oz pineapple with juice
2 c butter
4 eggs
1 c homemade blackberry jam
5/8 c buttermilk
2 1/2 c all purpose flour
1 c sugar
3/8 c unsweetened cocoa
1 ts baking soda
1 ts cinnamon
1 ts nutmeg
1 c pecans
2 c brown sugar
1/2 c milk
3 1/2 c 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. ----