Old Fashioned Prune Cake

This cake is super moist and full of flavor.

Old Fashioned Prune Cake

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Prep Time 45 minutes mins

Cook Time 1 hour hr

Servings: 10

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Ingredients Method

Ingredients

  

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup olive oil
• 3 eggs well beaten
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 cup cooked cut-up unsweetened prunes see below in recipe
• 2 cups flour
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract homemade recipe below
• 1 cup broken pecans

Method

 

Cooking the Prunes

1. This recipe calls for “cooked cut-up unsweetened prunes”.
2. In a sauce pan over medium heat, add 8 fresh prunes that have been coarsely cut up and de-pitted.
3. Saute over medium heat for about 30-45 minutes, until the prunes thicken up and take a form of jam.
4. Preheat your oven to 325F.
5. Grease and flour a bundt pan and set aside.

Mixing the Batter

1. In a mixing bowl, whisk the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg together.
2. In a separate mixing bowl, whisk the sugar and oil together.
3. Then, add the eggs, and buttermilk and whisk well to incorporate.
4. Finally add the cup of cooked prunes and mix.
5. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix well.

Baking

1. Pour the batter into your prepared bundt pan.
2. Cook for 60 minutes. Test by using a toothpick.
3. Let the cake cool for about 10 minutes before releasing it onto a cooking rack.
4. You can dust with powdered sugar.

Homemade Vanilla Extract

This was a baking fail, and yes I admit it. I was reading the recipe and it only called for 1 teaspoon of baking soda. which I thought was weird, but I wound up going for it. The result was that the cake did not rise like I wanted it to. But my God it tastes really good. It is moist inside with a great prune flavor, and just the right about of sweetness.