Kentucky jam cake

{{Short description|American dessert}}

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| name = Kentucky jam cake

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| country = United States

| region = Kentucky

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| course = Dessert

| type = Cake

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| main_ingredient = Jam, spices, caramel icing

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Kentucky jam cake is a traditional dessert originating in the United States state of Kentucky and also associated with Tennessee. The cake has jam and spices mixed in the batter and is decorated with caramel icing.{{cite book|author1=John Van Willigen|author2=Robert L. McLaughlin|author3=Sally E. Parry|author4=Anne Van Willigen|title=Food and everyday life on Kentucky family farms, 1920-1950|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tzUb-P6u6tMC|accessdate=18 February 2012|date=16 June 2006|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=978-0-8131-2387-5}}{{cite book|author=R. Gerald Alvey|title=Kentucky Bluegrass country|url=https://archive.org/details/kentuckybluegras0000alve|url-access=registration|accessdate=18 February 2012|date=1 August 1992|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-0-87805-544-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/kentuckybluegras0000alve/page/275 275]}}{{cite book|author1=The Red Hat Society|author2=Sue Ellen Cooper|title=The Red Hat Society Cookbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yQI1aRAHh3oC|accessdate=18 February 2012|date=8 August 2006|publisher=Thomas Nelson Inc|isbn=978-1-4016-0246-8|page=51}}