Blackberry Buttermilk Cake (1980)

• 4 eggs
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 cups fresh or frozen blackberries, drained
• 1 cup butter
• 3 cups flour
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 tspn cinnamon
• 1 tspn nutmeg
• 1 tspn cloves, ground
• 1 tspn baking powder
• 1 tspn baking soda

Cream sugar and butter together.  Beat eggs, and add to creamed mixture.  Combine flour, spices, baking powder and soda.  Stir into creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk.

Carefully fold in blackberries.  Bake at 350 degrees in cake pan for 30 minutes.  (Raspberries can be substituted for blackberries.)

Cold Coffee Icing

• 1 cup butter
• 1 box (1 lb) confectioners sugar
• 1 tspn vanilla
• 3 (or more, as needed) tbspns cold coffee

Frost cake with icing made by beating the ingredients together until fluffy.

(Origin - "Faith Outreach Church Cookbook" in Huntington, West Virginia, 1980.)

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