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Old Fashioned Prune Cake - CDKitchen.com

serves/makes:
  
ready in:
  1-2 hrs

ingredients

1 cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
1 1/2 cup white sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground allspice
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 cup buttermilk
1 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup prunes, pitted and chopped
1 1/2 cup chopped pecans

Topping

3/4 cup butter
3/4 cup buttermilk
1 1/2 teaspoon dark corn syrup
1 1/2 cup white sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour Bundt or tube pan.

In a medium bowl, mix together flour, soda, salt, allspice, cinnamon and nutmeg. Set aside.

In a large bowl, combine oil, eggs and sugar. Beat 2 minutes at medium speed. Add flour mixture, alternating with buttermilk, starting and ending with dry ingredients. Beat well after each addition. Stir in prunes, pecans and vanilla.

Pour into greased and floured Bundt or tube pan and bake at 350 degrees F for 1 hour or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the center.

Make large, deep holes in hot cake and pour topping in holes and on top of cake a little at a time, giving it time to soak in.

For Topping: In saucepan, over medium heat, cook butter, buttermilk, corn syrup and sugar until sugar and butter melt. Remove from heat and add vanilla and stir.

added by

Josefina, North Carolina USA


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