Spice Cake with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting

1 Prehea the oven to 350F.
2 Whisk the flour, baking powder, soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and cayenne.
3 Cream butter in the bowl.
4 Add the brown sugar and sugar and whip until creamy.
5 Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each.
6 Beat in the vanilla.
7 Whip on high speed until light and fluffy, 3 minutes or so.
8 Scrape sides a few times during beating.
9 Pour the buttermilk and whiskey in a cup.
10 While mixing on lowest speed, add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture alternately with the milk mixture.
11 Pour batter into two greased and floured 8-inch cake pans.
12 Bake at 350F for 30 minutes or until a wooden pick comes out clean.
13 Let cool in pans for 10 minutes.
14 Turn out to finish cooling.
Maple Cream Cheese Frosting
1 Beat the cream cheese and butter together.
2 Add the flavorings and the syrup.
3 Whip until fluffy.
4 Add the confectioners' sugar slowly until you reach the consistency that you like.
5 Whip until very fluffy.
6 Add cream as needed for consistency.