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Old Fashioned Sugar Plum Cake

This old fashioned sugar plum cake is a cherished recipe from grandma's recipe files. A rich spice cake is soaked in a brown sugar sauce...
Prep Time15 mins
Cook Time35 mins
Total Time50 mins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cake
Servings: 4
Calories: 416kcal

Ingredients

  • 2 Cups All Purpose Flour
  • 1 ½ C 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
  • 1 Cup dried plums chopped
  • 1 ½ Cup chopped nuts I used walnuts

Sauce

  • 1 stick margarine or butter
  • 1 1/2 C sugar
  • ½ tsp soda
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • ½ C Buttermilk

Instructions

  • Grease and flour bundt or 9x13 cake pan. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine all cake ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Beat with electric mixer until well combined. Pour into prepared cake pan and bake for one hour.
  • Just before cake is done, place all sauce ingredients into a saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly, and continue boiling gently until sauce is thickened, about two minutes. Remove done cake from oven and poke holes all over top with a fork. Pour hot sauce over hot cake. Allow to sit in pan until sauce is absorbed.

*This recipe calls for 1 tsp cinnamon and 1 tsp nutmeg but I really, really, really don't like Nutmeg and so willingly and continually discriminate against it in all of my recipes. Feel free to give Nutmeg a chance :).

    Serve to thrilled guests, remember to call it "Sugar Plum Cake" to the younger crowd, but you can tell the older folks its just good old fashioned "Prune Cake"!

      Nutrition

      Calories: 416kcal