Prune Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 cup bite size pitted prune, chopped
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees f.
• 2 grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.
• 3 beat eggs in a medium bowl.
• 4 add sugar and beat well.
• 5 mix in oil.
• 6 in a small bowl, dissolve baking soda in butter milk.
• 7 sift flour, salt, nutmeg, cloves, and cinnamon.
• 8 add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk mixture to egg mixture.
• 9 fold in prunes.
• 10 pour batter into pan and bake about 1 hour or until a tooth-pick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• 11 to prepare the frosting, combine sugar, baking soda, buttermilk, butter and salt in a medium saucepan. bring to a boil.
• 12 remove from heat, stir in vanilla.
• 13 poke holes in cake with a fork or long toothpick and pour over cake while both are still warm.
• 14 note: soak prunes briefly in boiling water so they can be chopped easily after they are drained and cooled. the baking powder causes the icing to foam while cooking.