#jam cake

[fullcravings]

Easy Jam Cake

[bhloomest]

[jammy342]

Ill cut you

[allchefrecipes]

Perfectly easy homemade jam cake

The recipe for this cake is very old and our family appreciates it for its simplicity and quick preparation. The jam for the sponge cake should be whatever you like, but I always use sour jam to balance the taste with the sweet cream.

[corgigarden]

Baking, decorating a cake and photographing the Final Product  - durning the Covid-19 Virus

[10tinbluebirds]

‘the jam cake like mom used to make’ well, actually she used to buy it and bring it home, but still....

[vagabondsausage]

Beginner's Luck

We ended up eating the entire cake...  

Jam cake?  Jam cake is something I really haven’t heard of outside my family but to them it was a dessert that crossed the generations.  It was a birthday cake for my uncle and mother whose birthdays were days apart ( one cake was used for both birthdays, new candles added to the already cut and partially eaten cake for my mom’s birthday, so the story goes).  Jam cake is a dense cake laden with spices and of course - jam.  The cake is then topped with a caramel icing, that, I never could wrap my palate around as a child.  Icing should be fluffy and soft and sweet.  Caramel icing is sweet but not fluffy or necessarily soft.  To me it was like a shell of cracked brown sugar and it just did not seem to be the right thing to do to a cake.

When I was 14 my cousin who was older had come to live with us.  She was a very capable person, strong, funny, and my favorite cousin.  She did not know how to cook much before then (aside from some MONSTER size pancakes she made for us one day during a sneak into her parent’s kitchen) so here at my parent’s house she began to experiment.  I am sure there were some other things that she made but the one thing she made that topped them all was a jam cake.

It smelled spicy and jammy and looked just great.  I remember we all tried a piece at the same time my brother and myself, my mother and cousin.  It tasted fantastic!  It was moist and sweet, the blackberry jam and spices melting in our mouths.  Then, I remember the look on everyone’s faces as they hit that bite, the bite of surprize, the bite of intense spice and the crunch.  The crunch that was not suppose to be there.  Each person begins fishing out the bit that crunched and each of us pulls out a whole clove.  Everyone is holding their individual clove with bewildered looks then almost simultaneously we erupt into laughter and my poor cousin who is totally confused about the whole thing is just beside herself because she did not know that there was a difference.  The recipe had called for cloves and it was probably listed just like that ‘cloves’ so in the whole cloves went.  We ended up eating the entire cake, picking the cloves out as we ate and sucking every last bit of cake baked onto each.

The infamous jam cake comes up somehow every time my cousin and I get together, we laugh as we recount the story, I don’t know if it will ever get old.  My cousin has been a fantastic sport about it and I truly love her for that.  One of the reasons she is my fave cuz.  Thanks for being so much fun and such a good sport about (most things) Cricket.