Homemade Spice Cake & Cream Cheese Frosting

Today is my wonderful husband's birthday. Usually when I ask him what cake he wants he just says anything with chocolate frosting...he says that because he knows chocolate frosting it really the only kind of frosting I like. But this year I told him chocolate wasn't an option and that I was making his cake from scratch. He chose a spice cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. Lets start with the cake...

Supplies:
3 cups cake flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
3/4 teaspoon all spice
2 sticks butter, softened
2 cups sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 eggs
1 1/4 milk

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350 F
• Spray and flour pans, I used two 8 inch round pans, but 3 probably would have been better
• Combine and mix flour, spices and salt in a large bowl
• Mix butter and sugar until creamy, mix in eggs
• Gradually mix in the dry ingredients and the milk with the the butter/sugar/egg mixture. Start with the dry ingredients and end with the dry ingredients
• Divide the mixture into cake pans
• If using 2 pans cook for 30 minutes, if using 3 cook for 20-25 minutes
• Once cooked let them cool for about 10 minutes before removing from pan
• Let them cool completely before frosting

Now onto the Cream Cheese Frosting

Supplies:
8oz of cream cheese, chilled
6 1/2 tablespoons of unsalted butter, room temperature
3 1/4 cups powdered
4 teaspoons of vanilla extract

Directions:

• Mix cream cheese and butter until smooth
• Gradually mix in the powdered sugar
• Add vanilla extract and mix

If you plan on covering the whole cake like I did you may want to double the frosting recipe.

Enjoy! The frosting will be way better than anything you can buy in the store!