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Georgia's Tennessee Jam Cake

By: Shaina_Ryder  
"This rich holiday dessert was invented by my grandmother and is a tradition in our house over Christmas. These ingredients were originally the authentic thing -- homemade jam, buttermilk out of the churn, and walnuts you gather and crack yourself. Now we use purchased items, but the cake is just as good. Frost with homemade caramel frosting, or your favorite cream cheese frosting."

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Prep Time:
25 Min
Cook Time:
40 Min
Ready In:
1 Hr 5 Min

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Original Recipe Yield 1 - 3 layer cake
 

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 2 cups white sugar
  • 8 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 2 tablespoons water
  • 2 cups seedless blackberry jam
  • 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cloves
  • 2 teaspoons ground nutmeg
  • 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 1 cup chopped black walnuts (optional)
  • 1/2 cup golden raisins (optional)

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease three 8 or 9 inch round cake pans and set aside.
  2. In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, mixing until each one is blended in. Dissolve the baking soda in the water; stir into the batter along with the blackberry jam. Combine the flour, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and salt; stir into the batter by hand, alternating with the buttermilk. Fold in the black walnuts and raisins if using. Divide the batter equally between the three pans, and spread in an even layer.
  3. Bake in the preheated oven until the top of the cakes spring back when lightly touched, about 35 minutes. Cool in the pans until cool enough to handle, then invert the cakes over a wire rack and remove pans to cool completely.

Nutritional Information open nutritional information

Amount Per Serving  Calories: 685 | Total Fat: 25.6g | Cholesterol: 182mg

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The reviewer gave this recipe 5 stars. This recipe averages a 0 star rating.
Reviewed on Feb. 26, 2009 by Shaina_Ryder 
Georgia was my grandmother, but she passed away in January of this year. She was poor and had... MORE
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Reviewed on Feb. 26, 2009 by misha 
My grandmother, too, was a proud Virginia lady who called her recipes receipts (which is the... MORE
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Reviewed on Mar. 9, 2009 by Wendy Humfleet 
Great taste. I was curious on this and wanted to try it out for my father-in-laws birthday. ... MORE
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Reviewed on Jan. 28, 2009 by DPW 
Fabulous cake! I followed the recipe exactly and it was perfect. I frosted it with Caramel... MORE

 
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