https://www.copymethat.com/r/xQgLPJ5Bs/prune-cake/
47253760
6aMFLrf
xQgLPJ5Bs
2024-05-04 16:28:48
Prune Cake
loading...
X
This recipe, from Madge Beal, dated Sept. 10, 1980, is hand-written in the back of one of my mother-in-law's cookbooks.
Servings: 1 cake
Servings: 1 cake
Ingredients
- 2 c. flour
- 3 eggs
- 2½ c. sugar
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 c. pureed baby food prunes
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- ⅛ tsp. ground cloves
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 c. oil
- 1¼ c. buttermilk
- 1 c. chopped nuts
- 2 tbsp. unsalted butter
- 1 tbsp. white corn syrup
Steps
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- Grease & flour bundt pan.
- Beat flour, eggs, 2-c. sugar, baking soda, prunes, cinnamon, cloves, vanilla, oil, & 1-c. buttermilk together till smooth.
- (The recipe doesn’t say when to add the nuts, but I assume you mix them in at this point.)
- Pour batter in bundt pan & bake 70-mins.
- Cool in pan for 20-mins. before removing.
- Put remaining sugar & buttermilk, plus butter & corn syrup into saucepan.
- Cook syrup over low heat for 10-mins., stirring constantly.
- Prick cake repeatedly with fork or skewer; then pour topping over cake.