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Old Fashioned Prune Cake

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Prep Time 45 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 10

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.