Filled with rich spices, walnuts, and dried plums, this sugarplum cake recipe is a delicious Southern fruit cake to bake this Christmas.
Prep Time15 minutesmins
Cook Time35 minutesmins
Total Time50 minutesmins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cake
Servings: 4
Calories: 416kcal
Ingredients
2cupsall-purpose flour
1 ½cupssugar
3eggs
1cupvegetable oil
1tspbaking soda
½tspsalt
1tspallspice
2tspcinnamon*or 1 tsp cinnamon and 1 tsp nutmeg
1cupbuttermilk
1tspvanilla extract
1cupdried plumschopped
1 ½cupchopped nutsI used walnuts
Sauce
1stick butter
1 ½cupssugar
½tspbaking soda
2tspvanilla extract
½cupsbuttermilk
Instructions
Grease and flour a bundt or 9x13 cake pan. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Combine all cake ingredients in a large bowl. Beat with an electric mixer until well combined. Pour into the prepared pan and bake for one hour.
2 cups all-purpose flour, 1 ½ cups sugar, 3 eggs, 1 cup vegetable oil, 1 tsp baking soda, ½ tsp salt, 1 tsp allspice, 2 tsp cinnamon*, 1 cup buttermilk, 1 tsp vanilla extract, 1 cup dried plums, 1 ½ cup chopped nuts
Just before the cake is done, place all the sauce ingredients into a saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly, and continue boiling gently until sauce is thickened, or about two minutes.
1 stick butter, 1 ½ cups sugar, 2 tsp vanilla extract, ½ cups buttermilk, ½ tsp baking soda
Remove the baked cake from the oven and poke holes all over the top with a fork. Pour the hot sauce over the hot cake. Allow the cake to sit in the pan until the sauce is absorbed.