Mmm. Cake

I am either a cooking genius or an idiot. My mom wanted spice cake for her birthday, but I couldn't find a recipe I liked, so I took the parts I liked from different recipes and cobbled them all together, trusting my instincts as a cake baker. Here is the final recipe.

1.5 cup butter

1 cup white sugar

.5 cups molasses (some recipes called for brown sugar, some for white and molasses. I trusted this one because of the recipe that called for apple butter. why not some extra liquid?)

2 eggs

2.66 cups flour

1.5 teaspoons baking powder

1.5 teaspoons salt (one recipe called for cake flour and baking soda, so I used regular flour and added some extra baking powder)

1 teaspoon cinnamon

.5 teaspoon nutmeg

.25 teaspoon ginger

.25 teaspoon cloves

1 cup buttermilk

1 teaspoon vanilla

preheat oven to 350

grease three 8" cake pans

cream butter. add sugar and molasses. stir. add eggs one at a time. alternate flour mixture and buttermilk. bake for 25 minutes.

Icing:

1.5 pounds cream cheese

2 cups confectioners sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 tablespoons molasses

beat cream cheese until creamy (duh), add molasses and vanilla. beat. add sugar at one cup intervals. beat. 

I'll let you know how it is received.