Jam Cake

  Ingredients

1 cup butter

2 cups sugar

6 eggs

3 cups flour

1 tsp. cinnamon

1 tsp. cloves

1 tsp. allspice

1 tsp. soda

1 cup sour cream

2 cups blackberry jam

Butter Cream Icing:

3 cups sugar

1 cup butter

1 1 /2 cups whipping cream

1 tsp. vanilla

1 1/2 cups chopped nuts (opt.)

Directions

Cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time. Sift flour with cinnamon, cloves and allspice; dissolve soda in sour cream. Add flour to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream. Stir in jam. Pour batter into four 8 inch layer pans and bake at 350 for 30 minutes or until cake pulls away from side of pan.

For Icing: Mix sugar, butter and cream and cook over low heat to soft ball stage or 238 degrees. Remove from heat; add vanilla and cool slightly. Beat until right consistency for spreading. Add nuts if desired and ice between layers on top and sides of cake.