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