White Gingerbread Tea Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup sweet butter, room temperature
1 teaspoon cinnamon, divided
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground mace
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 egg
1/2 cup buttermilk

Preparation

Mix together flour, sugar and butter until mixture resembles coarse cornmeal.
Add 1/2 of the tsp of the cinnamon, blend.
Set aside 1 cup of mixture.
To the rest of the mix add, ginger, mace, salt, soda and baking powder and remaining cinnamon; stir.
Add egg and buttermilk, beating till smooth.
Pour batter into a greased and floured 10 inch tube pan.
Sprinkle reserved crumb mix evenly over top.
Bake 40 minutes, or until tester inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool and serve.