Strawberry Jam Cake

From: Vera Hammond

On Apr 11, 2003

The cake was perfect, mouist. We substituted plum jam for strawberry jam. And on the top of the cake we spread vanilla icing. I baked it about 45 minutes. Thank you for the recipe.

From: Theresa/ Thunderbird

On Mar 4, 2003

Hi,I'm glad you liked it!

From: Roosie

On Jun 27, 2004

This cake is really astounding... I was kind of unsure when making it, and kind of unsure when pulling it out of the oven and kind of unsure when setting it out to cool. But now I've iced it (with KITTENCAL's Really Easy and Good Buttercream Icing (#80118)) and its so tasty! It's like part spice cake part fruit cake... a really unusual flavor combination. I used about 2/3c strawberry preserves and about 1/3c blueberry jam because I ran out of preserves. I think I should have used stronger coffee, but it still added a bit of dark flavor to the cake. I reduced the spices a little- I did use the full 2 tsp cinnamon, but used only about 1/2-3/4 tsp cloves and only a sprinkle of nutmeg (I have learned that being liberal with nutmeg can ruin a dish, so now I am very cautious when using it) and added a sprinkle of allspice. Very moist with a nice crumb. The recipe says it makes "One cake" and specifies nowhere what size pans to use- I went ahead and made it in 2 8" round pans, but they did turn out rather flat. I came across this recipe to use up some jam (BF likes a tart jam, so we often end up with jars he half-heartedly half-finishes because he feels they're too sweet) and I'm glad I did. Really intreguing flavors and very moist. My cakes baked in about 20 minutes. I have had a hard time deciding what to rate this recipe, but I have, although my cakes are delicious, decided on 4 stars. This is for 2 reasons, really: One, the recipe does not state the pan size to be used and two, I think that if one actually used 1 tsp of nutmeg in the cake it would be terrible. It is a delicous cake and smells and tastes wonderful- thanks for posting.

From: Sueie

On Jul 19, 2003

I made a bit of an oops! with this, started to put in 3 tablespoons coffee granules and then realised it probably should have been prepared coffee. I ended up with about 1 1/2 tablespoons of coffee powder. It made it into a very adult sort of cake, really nice, not too sweet.