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My review
Festive Prune Cake
Lynn
"This is a relatively plain cake made moist with prunes and prune juice. Its nice to have slice of this cake for breakfast in the morning."
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Ingredients
servings 171 calsOriginal recipe yields 24 servings (1 9x13 inch cake or 2-8 inch rounds)
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Directions
{{model.addEditText}} Print- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour one 9x13 inch baking pan.
- Sift the flour, baking soda, salt, ground cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and allspice. Set aside.
- Cream the shortening with the white sugar. Blend in the eggs one at a time and beat well for 1 minute. Add the dry ingredients alternately with the prune juice. Stir in the prunes and nuts. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 30 minutes or until done.
Nutrition Facts
Per Serving: 171 calories; 8 g fat; 23.4 g carbohydrates; 2.6 g protein; 16 mg cholesterol; 156 mg sodium. Full nutrition
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Most helpful positive review
5/29/2000
This cake tastes great and really is so easy to put together but the directions says to bake in 30 minutes. It was a good thing I was looking out for the cake because it only took 20 minutes to...
Most helpful critical review
11/28/2014
I like butter too much, this recipe called for shortening. Although it is nice and soft it just misses the yumminess of butter.
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5/29/2000
This cake tastes great and really is so easy to put together but the directions says to bake in 30 minutes. It was a good thing I was looking out for the cake because it only took 20 minutes to...
3/8/2008
A tasty, moist cake. I followed one reviewer's suggestion and boiled the prunes in prune juice, then strained them and added more juice to make up the 1 cup. My other changes to the recipe were:...
10/17/2001
This was a really beautiful cake and was raved about by everyone who tasted it.I cooked it in a 10inch round tin and it took longer than specified (nearly double the time).It has great keeping q...
9/22/2008
I have made this once so far, following the review that suggested subbing 2 tablespoons cocoa for the nutmeg, etc, stewing the prunes in the prune juice, and halving the sugar. This came out d...
1/23/2008
this was delicious and light. too sweet for me though. next time i'll cut the sugar by 1/4 cup and see. i made this with gluten free flours, a straight 1:1 substitution and it's perfect. i boile...
1/12/2011
I had some prune juice I didn't know what to do with and came across this recipe. I followed the recipe exactly except for I substituted two bananas for the cup of prunes (I didn't have any actu...
7/7/2009
I love this cake with coffee glaze. even my fincky 11 yr old ate it... w/o complaint. She didn't believe me that it was prunes... The recipe is great as is.. but 2nd time around I made the follo...
6/1/2009
I have searched for this recipe for years. My mother used to make it at the holidays and this appears to be exactly it. The only thing I did different was frost it with cream cheese frosting, ve...