This cake is super moist and full of flavor.
Old Fashioned Prune Cake
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
Instructions
Cooking the Prunes
- This recipe calls for “cooked cut-up unsweetened prunes”.
- In a sauce pan over medium heat, add 8 fresh prunes that have been coarsely cut up and de-pitted.
- Saute over medium heat for about 30-45 minutes, until the prunes thicken up and take a form of jam.
- Preheat your oven to 325F.
- Grease and flour a bundt pan and set aside.
Mixing the Batter
- In a mixing bowl, whisk the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg together.
- In a separate mixing bowl, whisk the sugar and oil together.
- Then, add the eggs, and buttermilk and whisk well to incorporate.
- Finally add the cup of cooked prunes and mix.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix well.
Baking
- Pour the batter into your prepared bundt pan.
- Cook for 60 minutes. Test by using a toothpick.
- Let the cake cool for about 10 minutes before releasing it onto a cooking rack.
- You can dust with powdered sugar.
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.
