Best Old Fashioned Prune Cake Recipes

OLD FASHIONED PRUNE CAKE

Old Fashioned Prune Cake image

This is a very moist and rich cake. A little troublesome, but well worth it!

Provided by WYJAC

Categories Desserts Cakes Coffee Cake Recipes

Yield 12

Number Of Ingredients 18

Ingredients

1 cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
1 ½ cups white sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground allspice
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 cup buttermilk
1 ¼ teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup prunes, pitted and chopped
1 ½ cups chopped pecans
¾ cup butter
¾ cup buttermilk
1 ½ teaspoons dark corn syrup
1 ½ cups white sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Steps:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour Bundt or tube pan.
In a medium bowl, mix together flour, soda, salt, allspice, cinnamon and nutmeg. Set aside.
In a large bowl, combine oil, eggs and 1 1/2 cup sugar. Beat 2 minutes at medium speed.
Add flour mixture, alternating with 1 cup buttermilk, starting and ending with dry ingredients. beat well after each addition. Stir in prunes, pecans and 1 1/4 teaspoon vanilla.
Pour into greased and floured bundt or tube pan and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 1 hour or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the center.
Make large, deep holes in hot cake and pour topping in holes and on top of cake a little at a time, giving it time to soak in.
For the topping: In saucepan, over medium heat, cook butter, 3/4 cup buttermilk, corn syrup and 1 1/2 cup sugar until sugar and butter melt. Remove from heat and add 2 teaspoons vanilla and stir.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 701.5 calories, Carbohydrate 79.7 g, Cholesterol 78.4 mg, Fat 41.6 g, Fiber 3.1 g, Protein 6.7 g, SaturatedFat 11.2 g, Sodium 438.1 mg, Sugar 58.9 g

GLUTEN-FREE, DAIRY-FREE OLD FASHIONED PRUNE CAKE

Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Old Fashioned Prune Cake image

I got the basic recipe for this from the Pioneer Woman. I re-created it into a gluten-free dairy-free version of her delicious cake. (I confess to a couple of other "tweaks" as well:))My whole family really enjoyed it and these are people who would never have touched it had I actually CALLED it "prune cake". What they don't know...

Provided by cindy sandberg

Categories Other Snacks

Number Of Ingredients 10

Ingredients

1 c prunes
1/2 c sugar(i used sucanat)
1/2 c honey
1 c oil(i used light olive oil-could also use melted butter)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 c oat flour(easily make your own by grinding oats in blender or food processor)
1/2 c brown rice flour(or favorite gf flour)
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinammon
1 c soured non-dairy milk-i used almond milk(could also use buttermilk)**

Steps:

1. Preheat oven to 300F(yes, that low). Grease a 9x13 baking dish.
2. Place the prunes in a small saucepan and cover with water. Bring to a boil and cook until soft...about 8 min. Drain the water and mash the prunes. You can just mash them up with a fork, or you can puree them, as I did. Set aside.
3. Thoroughly combine the honey, sugar, eggs, oil and vanilla.
4. In a separate bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients.
5. Add the wet to the dry, along with the buttermilk and stir just enough to combine.(don't overmix)
6. Pour batter into the pan and bake for 35-40 min. Watch carefully toward the end so as to not overbake.
7. Top with your choice of glaze, powdered sugar, or sweetened whipped cream.
8. **To make soured milk, put 1T of lemon juice or vinegar in a measuring cup and add your non-dairy milk to the 1c line.