Prune Spice Cake With Buttermilk Icing

Submitted by Choco-South

"Sweet, warm prune cake makes a perfect holiday traditional cake. It has been my husband's birthday cake every year since he was a child."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 15mins
• Ingredients: 19
• Serves: 8-10

ingredients

• 3 eggs
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
• 2 cups a-p flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon allspice
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 cup prune, cooked, seeded and chopped
• 1 cup pecans, chopped
• 1 cup sugar
• 1⁄2 cup buttermilk
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 tablespoon white corn syrup
• 1⁄4 cup butter
• 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract

directions

1. CAKE.
2. Blend sugar, oil and eggs.
3. Sift together all dry ingredients and add alternately with buttermilk.
4. Add vanilla, prunes and pecans.
5. Pour into buttered bundt pan.
6. Bake 350°F for 45 minute.
7. leave cake in pan and ice while warm.
8. ICING.
9. Combine last 6 ingredients in saucepan and bring to a boil.
10. Cook until soft ball stage (small amount dropped into cool water forms a soft ball).
11. Pour over cake while warm.
12. Serve with whipped cream and cherries or plain.