Go Back Email Link

Prune Cake

Deel op Facebook Print Recipe

Ingredients

  • 3 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 ½ cups sugar
  • 1 teaspoon soda
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon allspice
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 cup cooked pitted prunes
  • 1 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1 cup walnuts
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup vegetable oil

Icing:

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/3 cup butter
  • ½ cup buttermilk
  • 1 tablespoon white syrup
  • ½ teaspoon soda
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

  • Blend sugar and oil, add eggs and mix well.
  • Sift all dry ingredients together and mix into batter, alternating with milk.
  • Add prunes, nuts, and vanilla.
  • Pour into an ungreased 9 x 13 pan.
  • Bake for 1 hour at 325º.
  • Leave cake in pan and while still hot punch holes into cake with a fork.
  • Pour the following icing over immediately.
  • (Punch holes entire length of fork tines.)

Icing:

  • Boil above ingredients until it forms a soft ball.
  • Pour over cake immediately.
  • Do not overcook.
  • Begin making icing about 15 minutes before cake is done so it will be ready to pour over hot cake.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Course; Cake / Fruit