PRUNE AND SEMOLINA CAKE

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Am decluttering all my magazine clipped recipes and posting them here - am yet to try this one. Note to recipe says - suitable to freeze, can be made a day ahead.

Provided by ballarat

Categories     Dessert

Time 1h25m

Yield 1 cake

Number Of Ingredients 9

1 cup pitted prunes (170 grams)
125 g unsalted butter
2 eggs
1 1/4 cups self-raising flour
3/4 cup fine semolina
1/3 cup orange juice
1/4 cup caster sugar
1/2 cup water
1 teaspoon rose water

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 190 degrees centigrade (moderately hot).
  • Grease a 20 cm round cake tin and line base with paper; grease paper.
  • 2. Cover prunes with boiling water, let stand 10 minutes or until soft; drain well.
  • 3. Cream butter and sugar in small bowl with electric mixer until pale in colour. Beat in eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
  • 4. Stir in sifted flour, semolina and juice.
  • 5. Spread two-thirds of mixture over base of prepared pan, top with prunes, spread with remaining cake mixture.
  • 6. Bake in moderate oven about 50 minutes or until cooked through.
  • 7. When cake is nearly cooked, make syrup by combining sugar and water in pan and stirring over heat (without boiling) until sugar is dissolved. Bring to boil and simmer for 2 minutes. Lastly stir in rosewater.
  • 8. Turn onto wire rack, turn cake right side up and place rack on a tray.
  • 9. Pour hot syrup over hot cake, cool Serve dusted with icing sugar if desired.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 2273.9, Fat 113.9, SaturatedFat 67.8, Cholesterol 640.8, Sodium 2146.3, Carbohydrate 266.6, Fiber 9.3, Sugar 57.6, Protein 45.5

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