1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 5 eggs, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 cup buttermilk, 3 cups medium-gluten flour, 1/4 teaspoons salt, 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon powder, 1 teaspoon crushed cloves.
method of work
1. Cut the butter into small pieces, put it in a metal container, and then put the metal container in a container filled with warm water for a period of time. If the softening is uneven, you can stir it by hand or cut it into small pieces and soften it at room temperature (the room temperature should not be too low).
2. After cleaning the jujube, remove the jujube core and chop it for later use. After removing the shell of the hickory, chop it for later use.
3. Preheat the oven to 175 degrees Celsius, wet two 6-inch round cake pans with water, and put parchment on the baking pans.
4. Mix 2 1/2 cups of flour, salt and spices in a bowl and stir well.
5. Take a bowl, put it in yogurt, then dissolve soda in it and stir it evenly.
6. Put softened butter in another bowl, stir well, gradually add sugar, stir well immediately after adding, then beat one egg in five times, and stir well immediately after each beat.
6. Mix the flour mixture and the buttermilk mixture alternately into the cream mixture, starting with the flour paste and ending with the flour paste. Stir evenly after each addition until there are no pimples, and then mix thoroughly. Put the dates and pecans in the remaining 1/2 cups of flour, roll them, then put them in the flour paste, stir them so that the dates and pecans are evenly distributed, then carefully pour the grape jam into the flour paste and stir them evenly. Pour the dough into the prepared cake pan.
7. Bake the baking tray in a preheated oven for about 40 to 45 minutes, or until the wooden toothpick or chopsticks inserted in the center of the cake are pulled out clean and free of attachments. Take out the baking tray and let the cake cool in the baking tray for about 10 minutes. Remove from the baking tray, divide into several layers, and then cool completely.
8. Sprinkle fruit stuffing in the middle of the cake layer, and sprinkle fruit stuffing on the top of the cake, and serve on a plate.