Dessert Recipes - Golden Beauty Prune Cake Recipe

Ingredients                 

• 1 cup snipped cooked Sunsweet Prunes

• 1/2 cup butter or margarine

• 1 cup granulated sugar

• 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed

• 1 tsp vanilla

• 2 large eggs, beaten

• 2 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour

• 3/4 tsp baking powder

• 3/4 tsp baking soda

• 3/4 tsp salt

• 1/2 tsp cinnamon

• 1/4 tsp nutmeg

• 1/4 tsp cloves

• 1 cup buttermilk Mocha Frosting (below)

Mocha Frosting:

• 1 tsp instant coffee powder

• 1/4 cup milk

• 1/3 cup soft butter or margarine

• 1 lb powdered sugar, sifted

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Method:

1. Cook prunes by package directions; drain and snip. Cream butter with sugars and vanilla until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs. (Mixture may appear slightly curdled.)

2. Resift flour with baking powder, soda, salt and spices. Blend into creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.

3. Fold in prunes. Turn into 2 well greased, 8-inch layer cake pans.

4. Bake in oven center at 375°F for about 30 minutes, until cakes test done.

5. Remove from oven; let stand 10 minutes, then turn out onto wire racks to cool. When cold, spread Mocha Frosting between layers and on top and sides of cake.

Mocha Frosting: Dissolve coffee powder in milk. Combine with butter or margarine and powdered sugar. Beat until smooth, adding a few drops more milk if needed for good spreading consistency.