Recipe - Apple Cider Pound Cake

3 cup Sugar
1 One half cup Butter or Margarine
6 Eggs
3 cup Flour; AllPurpose
One half teaspoon Salt
One half teaspoon Baking Powder
1 teaspoon Cinnamon; Ground
One half teaspoon Allspice; Ground
One half teaspoon Nutmeg; Ground
One fourth teaspoon Cloves; Ground
1 cup Apple Cider
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

ICING
One half cup Sugar
One fourth cup Butter or Margarine
One fourth cup Buttermilk
One half teaspoon Vanilla Extract
One fourth teaspoon Baking Soda

In a large mixing bowl, cream sugar and butter. Add eggs, one at a time,
beating well after each addition. Stir together all dry ingredients; set
aside. Combine cider and vanilla. Add dry ingredients alternately with
cider mixture to batter. Mix until well blended. Spoon into a greased
10inch angel food cake pan or fluted tube pan. Bake at 325~F for about 1
hour and 10 minutes or until cake tests done. Meanwhile, combine all icing
ingredients in a saucepan. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer 10
minutes. While cake is warm, drizzle 1/3 of the icing over the cake. Serve
remaining icing over individual cake servings, if desired.

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