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Old Fashioned Sugar Plum Cake

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"!