Spud Spice Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 3/4 cups sugar
1 cup cold mashed potatoes
3/4 cup shortening
3 eggs
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup buttermilk or 1 cup sour milk
3/4 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
Frosting
1/4 cup butter
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
3 tablespoons milk
confectioners' sugar

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Cream together sugar, potato, shortening.
Add eggs one at a time to mixture.
Sift flour, cinnamon, nutmeh and salt.
Add Baking soda to milk.
Add wet and dry ingredients alternately to creamed mixture.
Mix in walnuts.
Pour in 2 8 in cakes pans that have been greased and floured.
Frosting: Melt butter in saucepan.
Stir in brown sugar.
Cook low heat 2 minutes.
Add milk and bring to full boil.
Cool to lukewarm.
Mix in enough confectioners sugar to spread easily on cake.