Old Fashioned Jam Cake

Ingredients

Cake

• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 1/2 cups butter
• 6 eggs
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 2 cups blackberry jam
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon allspice

Cooked Filling

• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 3/4 cup butter
• 1 1/2 cups milk

Instructions

1. Cream sugar and butter; sift flour baking soda and spices.
2. Add alternately flour mixture and eggs into creamed sugar and butter.
3. Last, add jam.
4. Heat oven to 325 degrees F and pour mixture into well-greased and paper-line 9-inch layer pans.
5. Bake for about 30 minutes or until done.
6. Let filling come to boil.
7. While cakes are still warm, pour a little filling at a time over each layer until it is used up. This makes the cake moist.