Blackberry Jam Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325.
• Grease and flour cake pan. Original recipe calls for tube pan, but I've always used 9 x 13.
• In large mixing bowl, cream together butter, sugar and oil until light and fluffy.
• Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Beat in sour cream and jam.
• Sift or stir together flour, soda and spices. Reserve a small amount to coat the dates, raisins and nuts. Stir remaining dry ingredients into jam mixture.
• Stir in flour-coated fruits and nuts.
• Pour batter into prepared cake pan and bake for approximately 1 to 1 1/2 hours (will depend on which type of pan you use) or until it tests done.

Steps:

• Cream together sugar and butter or margarine.
• Beat in eggs.
• Stir together flour, and spices; add to creamed mixture alternately with butter/sour milk, beating til well blended after each addition.
• Fold in blackberry jam or preserves and nuts leaving swirls of jam. (DO NOT OVERMIX) Turn into greased and lightly floured 9 x 9 x 2-inch baking pan.
• Bake at 350 degree F. oven 25 minutes or until done.
• Cool completely.
• Frost with Carmel Icing.
• CARMEL ICING:
• In small saucepan, melt butter or margarine; stir in brown sugar.
• Cook stirring constantly, til mixture bubbles; remove from heat.
• Cool 5 minutes.
• Stir in milk and blend in powdered sugar; beat til spreading consistancy is reached.

Steps:

• Cream butter; add sugar and continue to cream until light and fluffy.
• Add egg yolks, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Stir in vanilla.
• Sift together spices and dry ingredients. Add alternately with buttermilk and jam to creamed mixture.
• Add cream of tartar to egg whites and beat until stiff; fold into batter.
• Pour into two greased and floured 9 inch cake pans.
• Bake at 375* for 30 minutes or until cake tests done.

Steps:

• Place the berries in a large stainless steel or enamel saucepan. Bring to a full boil over high heat, mashing the berries with a potato masher as they cook. Add the lemon juice and boil hard for 1 minute, stirring and mashing constantly.
• Add the sugar and return the mixture to a boil. Cook, stirring constantly, until it begins to look syrupy and thickens slightly, about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and test for doneness: a candy thermometer should register 220 degrees F and the mixture should coat the back of a spoon. Run a finger--or a clean object about the width of a finger--through the coat of jam. If the jam does not run and fill the gap, it is done. Otherwise, return the pan to the heat for another 1 to 2 minutes and test again. Be careful not to let the mixture get too thick--it will thicken as it cools.
• When the jam is done, transfer it to a heatproof jar and cool to room temperature, about 2 hours. Cover with a tight-fitting lid and refrigerate. The jam will keep for up to 2 weeks.

Steps:

• Sift all dry ingredients together.
• Cream shortening and sugar.
• Add egg yolks to shortening mixture and beat well.
• Add flour mixture alternately with sour milk.
• Add vanilla and blackberry jam.
• Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites.
• Bake in greased tube pan at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 45 minutes.

Steps:

• If you have hand picked your blackberries from the wild then first you will need to soak the fruit in salted water for a couple of hours. This cleans and destroys any bugs. After soaking rinse well in clean water.
• Prepare your jars: you will need a minimum of two empty jars with lids. Ensure they are clean. Warm in an oven on about 100 degrees C.
• Place your blackberries, sugar and lemon juice into a large saucepan and place on the hob on a low heat.
• Gently heat and fold the sugar into the blackberries until dissolved.
• Bring the fruit to a gentle boil, stirring occasionally and let the fruit simmer for about 10-12 minutes. A slight froth should start to appear as the fruit boils. (Do not feel tempted to increase the heat to boil quickly. The key is a gentle boil).
• Place a knob of butter on top of the fruit and stir across the top into the froth. The butter is used to break down the froth. If you still have excess then remove the frothy bubbles with a spoon. Remove saucepan from heat.
• Do the fridge test: place a small amount of jam on to a plate and place in the fridge. Leave for a few minutes and then remove. Tilt the plate and the jam should crinkle. If the jam is still runny then place back onto heat and boil gently for a further 2 minutes. Test again.
• You are now ready to place your mixture into your jars and place lids on. Allow to cool and then place in the fridge.
• Your jam is then ready to eat the following day.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 2 9-inch round cake pans, dust with flour, and line pan bottoms with waxed paper.
• Whisk flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda, and salt in a bowl until thoroughly combined. Stir buttermilk and vanilla extract in a separate small bowl.
• Beat sugar and butter in a large mixing bowl, using an electric mixer on medium speed, until mixture is light yellow and fluffy. Scrape down the sides often while beating. Beat in egg and egg whites thoroughly, then beat 3/4 cup of blackberry jam into mixture.
• Stir 1/3 cup flour mixture and 1/2 of the buttermilk mixture into moist ingredients, using a wooden spoon. Beat in 1/3 of flour mixture, remaining buttermilk mixture, and remaining flour mixture to make a batter. Spread batter evenly into prepared cake pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into center of a cake comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes. Let cakes cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing, peeling off waxed paper, and letting cakes finish cooling on wire racks.
• Place a cake layer, bottom side facing up, onto a cake plate. Spread remaining 3/4 cup of blackberry jam evenly over the cake; top with second cake layer with bottom side facing down.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour 3 (9 inch) pans. Mix together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, allspice and cloves. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk. Stir in the blackberry jam. Pour batter into prepared pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 25 to 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pans for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375°F Cream the butter and sugar together then slowly whisk in the eggs.
• Mix the dry ingredients together in a large bowl. Stir in the egg mixture, buttermilk, & jam. Flour raisins lightly and gently fold into the batter.
• Pour the batter into 2 buttered and lightly floured 8 inch cake pans. Bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick can be inserted & comes out clean.
• Cool on a wire rack then frost if desired.

Steps:

• Make the cake:
• In a large bowl with an electric mixer cream together the butter and the sugar until the mixture is light and fluffy. Add the eggs and combine the mixture well. Into a bowl sift together 3 cups of the flour, the allspice, the cloves, the cinnamon, and the salt. In another bowl combine the buttermilk and the baking soda. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture in batches alternately with the buttermilk mixture, beating well after each addition. In a bowl toss together the raisins, the pecans, and the remaining 1 tablespoon flour and stir the mixture into the batter with the jam, stirring until the mixture is combined well. Line the bottoms of 2 buttered 9-inch cake pans with wax paper and butter the paper. Pour the batter into the pans and bake the layers in the middle of a preheated 325°F. oven for 40 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean. Let the layers cool in the pans on a rack for 15 minutes, invert them onto the rack, and let the layers cool completely.
• Make the icing
• In a saucepan combine the brown sugar, the evaporated milk, and the butter, cook the mixture over moderately low heat, stirring, until the sugar is dissolved, and cook it, undisturbed, washing down any sugar crystals clinging to the side of the pan with a brush dipped in cold water, until it registers 238°F. on a candy thermometer. Transfer the mixture to a bowl and beat it until it is of spreading consistency. If the icing gets too hard to spread, dip the icing spatula in hot water.
• Transfer one of the layers, bottom up, to a cake plate, frost the top with the icing, and top it with the remaining layer, bottom down. Frost the top and sides with the icing.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°. Dissolve soda in buttermilk. Cream butter and gradually add sugar; add egg yolks. Sift together flour and spices. Add to creamed mixture alternately with the buttermilk mixture. Add vanilla and jam. Fold in the beaten egg whites. Bake in a well-greased, deep 10-inch tube or Bundt pan in a 300° oven for 15 minutes, then at 350° for 15 minutes, and then at 360° for 30 to 40 minutes. Test with cake tester before removing from oven. Remove from oven, unmold cake to a rack, and cool.

Steps:

• Place cake mix, jam, buttermilk, oil, cinnamon and eggs in a large mixing bowl and beat on low speed 30 seconds. Increase speed to medium and beat 1 1/2 minutes longer or until smooth.
• Fold nuts into batter.
• Pour into 2 greased and floured 9 inch cake pans.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 34 minutes or until the tops spring back when lightly pressed with a finger.
• Cool on wire racks 10 minutes, then remove from pans.
• Let the layers cool completely on wire racks.
• When layers are cool, frost with a cream cheese, caramel or lemon frosting.

Steps:

• Cream together the butter and sugar.
• Add the jam, cinnamon and nutmeg.
• Blend the dry ingredients together.
• Add the dry ingredients to the mixture alternately with the sour milk.
• Bake in greased tubular (or bundt) pan at 350°F for 45 to 60 minutes.
• Boil the sugar, milk and nutmeg together for a couple of minutes.
• Stir in enough of the powdered sugar to make a ‘drizzle’.
• Drizzle the icing over the cake and let it run down the sides and middle.