Frosted Jam Cake

• 1 cup butter softened
• 2 cups sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 2 cups blackberry jam
• 3 cups flour, unbleached all-purpose
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 teaspoons allspice ground
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon ground
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 cup raisins, seedless
• 23 cup nuts chopped

1. Preheat the oven to 350F (180C)., then grease and flour 3 9- inch cake pans.
2. Cream the butter and sugar until light then beat in the eggs and jam, blending well.
3. Sift the dry ingredients together and then add the dry ingredients, alternating with the buttermilk, to the creamed mixture, blending well after each addition.
4. Stir in the raisins and nuts.
5. Pour the batter evenly into the prepared pans and bake for 35 to 45 minutes, or until the cake tests done, in the preheated oven.
6. Cool for 5 minutes on wire racks and turn out of the cake pans to cool to room temperature.
7. When cool, spread with the warm frosting.

butter, sugar, eggs, blackberry jam, flour, baking powder, baking soda, allspice ground, cinnamon ground, buttermilk, raisins, nuts

Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/frosted-jam-cake-33535 (may not work)