RECIPE: Old Fashioned Prune Cake

20 years ago

This is a cake that we had often when I was growing up, but I hadn't made it for years. Sometimes you remember something as being soooo good, then you make it and it's just not as good as you remembered. Well....that's not the case with this recipe! It is better than I remembered!

Prune Cake

1 1/2 cups sugar

1 cup vegetable oil

3 eggs, beaten

1 cup buttermilk

1 cup chopped nuts

2 cups flour

1 t. soda

1 t. cinnamon

1 t. nutmeg

1 t. allspice

1/2 t. salt

1 cup cooked prunes, pitted and chopped fine

2 t. vanilla

Blend sugar and oil; add eggs and beat well. Sift dry ingredients together; add alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition. Add nuts, prunes, and vanilla. Stir to distribute well through batter. Pour batter into a greased and floured 9x13x2 pan. Bake at 350 for 35-40 minutes, or until cake tests done. While cake is baking, prepare sauce and pour it over the cake while it is hot. Leave cake in pan to cool completely.

Sauce

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup buttermilk

1/2 t. soda

2 t. vanilla

1/4 to 1/2 cup butter

Combine all ingredients in saucepan. Bring to boil and boil one minute. Pour immediately over cake still hot from the oven. Let cool completely in pan.

Notes: I didn't bother to sift; used only 1/2 t. allspice; used walnuts; chopped prunes and poured boiling water over them and let them plump, then drained well.

This is "smack yo' mouth" good!

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Comments (3)

annie1992
20 years ago
Teresa, I know a lot of people don't like prunes, but I do. And, I think my Dad's gonna love this.

Annie
lpinkmountain
20 years ago
I just love dried plums! :-)
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lisbet
20 years ago
Teresa: Thanks for your recipe. There aren't too many prune cake recipes around. Will add it to my collection. I LOVE PRUNES...don't forget that a dried prune was once a plum.

The recipe below is a "tried & true" one (many times over). My favorite.

Prune Sour Cream Cake

1 1/2 cups Sunsweet Prunes (use already pitted, soft
prunes)
1 tablespoon grated lemon rind
2 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup soft butter
1 cup granulated sugar -- * I use 3/4 cup
2 large eggs
1 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup chopped English walnuts

Pour boiling water over prunes. Let stand 15 minutes. (Skip this step if using the soft pitted kind.) Drain, pit, and dice prunes.
Add lemon and set aside.

Grease and flour 9" tube pan. Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt; remove 1/4 cup and toss with prunes.

Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Slowly beat in flour mixture, alternnately with
sour cream and vanilla, beginning and ending with flour.

Fold in prunes. Combine brown sugar, cinnamon and nuts. Turn 1/3 batter into pan. Sprinkle with 1/3 brown
sugar mixture, repeat layering twice.

Bake at 350Â° F. 55 minutes or until done. Cool in pan on rack for 10 minutes.
Remove from pan.

Description:
"Coffee Cake Type. Tried and True! Very, very good!!"
Source:
"from the back of Sunsweet Prune box"