Yummy Prune Cake

17 ingredients
5 steps

Ingredients

  • 2 cups flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 cup oil
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 (1 lb) box dried pitted prunes (or plums)
  • Cake Sauce
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup buttermilk
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 cup nuts (optional)

Directions

  1. 1
    Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place prunes in pot with 1/4 cup water. Cook until prunes are soft but not mushy. Drain water and slightly mash the prunes into small chunks.
  2. 2
    Place all ingredients including prunes in a mixing bowl and beat until ingredients are combined. Pour batter into an ungreased 9-by-13-inch pan.
  3. 3
    Bake for about 40 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean. Remove cake from oven and, with the tines of a fork, poke holes in the cake.
  4. 4
    For the cake sauce, combine butter, sugar, buttermilk and vanilla and bring to a boil. Remove from heat; add the baking soda and stir. At this point you may add the nuts (optional).
  5. 5
    Pour the sauce over the cake (you can make some holes with a fork first). Let cake sit and cool before cutting.

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