Prune Cake With Buttermilk Icing

Another from "The Pioneer Woman Cooks"!

• Ready In: 1 hr 10 mins
• Serves: 24
• Yields: 1 9 x 13 pan

Ingredients

• Cake

• 1  cup prune
• 1 1⁄2 cups flour
• 1  teaspoon baking soda
• 1  teaspoon nutmeg
• 1  teaspoon cinnamon
• 1  teaspoon allspice
• 1  cup sugar
• 3  eggs
• 1  cup canola oil
• 1  teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1  cup buttermilk

• Icing

• 1  cup sugar
• 1⁄2 cup buttermilk
• 4  tablespoons butter
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1  tablespoon light corn syrup
• 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 300 F and grease a 9 x 13 in baking pan.
2. Place prunes in small saucepan, cover with water and bring to a boil; cook until soft and mashable (about 8 min).
3. Drain water and mash prunes (ok to leave some chunks behind), set aside.
4. For cake, mix together flour, baking soda, nutmeg, cinnamon, and allspice.
5. In separate bowl, mix together sugar, eggs, oil, and vanilla.
6. Combine wet and dry ingredients and splash in buttermild.
7. Stir until just combined (will be slightly lumpy).
8. Add mashed prunes.
9. Pour into baking pan and bake at 300 F for 35 to 40 minute.
10. When cake has about 5 min left to bake, make icing: combine butter, baking soda, corn syrup, and vanilla in medium saucepan and stir to combine.
11. Bring to a slow boil over med-high heat.
12. Continue boiling until it turns a light caramel color (5-7 min) -- should be pourable but not firm and sticky.
13. Pull cake out of oven.
14. While cake is still warm, pour icing evenly over top -- work fast, it will soak into cake quickly.
15. Spread to coat evenly and serve immediately.