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Prune
Cake
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Cake:
4 eggs
2 cups sugar
I cup vegetable oil
I teaspoon baking soda
1 cup buttermilk
2 cups all-purpose flour
'/2 teaspoon salt
I teaspoon each nutmeg,
cloves and cinnamon
I cup bite-sized pitted
prunes, chopped
1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.
2. Beat eggs in a medium bowl. Add sugar and beat well. Mix in
oil. In a small bowl, dissolve baking soda in buttermilk. Sift flour,
salt, nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon. Add flour mixture alternately
with buttermilk mixture to egg mixture. Fold in prunes.
3. Pour batter into pan and bake about I hour or until a tooth
pick inserted in the center comes out clean.
4. To prepare the frosting, combine sugar, baking soda, but
termilk, butter and salt in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil.
Remove from heat and stir in vanilla. Poke holes in cake with a
fork or long toothpick and pour frosting over cake while both
are still warm.
Tips From Our Test Kitchen:
Soak prunes briefly in boiling water so they can be chopped
or torn apart easily by hand after they are drained and cooled.
The baking powder causes the icing to foam while cooking.
Frosting:
1 cup sugar
Z* teaspoon baking
soda
Zi cup buttermilk
2 tablespoons butter
Z* teaspoon salt
I teaspoon vanilla
extract
Photo: David Darner
Styling: Mary Carter
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