Spice Cake with Orange Butter Frosting - Cindys Recipes

Ingredients

• 1 3/4 C Cake flour (See notes on how to make cake flour)
• 2 1/4 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp cloves
• few grains of cayenne (optional - I didn't use for my first cake)
• 2 Tbsp boiling water
• 1/2 C butter or shortening (I used unsalted sweet cream butter, softened)
• 1 C sugar (separated )
• 2 eggs (separated)
• 2/3 C milk
• 1/4 C butter, softened
• 2 C confectioners' XXXX sugar (very fine sugar, just used powdered sugar)
• 2 Tbsp orange juice
• 1 tsp orange rind (I didn't have fresh oranges, just used OJ)