Name: Chocolate Prune Cake
Ingredients: 2 cups cooked prunes; ⅔ cup shortening; 1 ½ cups granulated sugar; 2 oz baking chocolate; 3 eggs, well-beaten; 2 ¾ cups cake flour or pastry flour; 4 tsp baking powder; ½ tsp baking soda; ½ tsp salt; 1 cup milk; 1 tsp vanilla

AuthorRetroRuth

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From Prunes For Epicures, 35 Intriguing Recipes - United Prune Growers of California, 1933

Tested Recipe!

2 cups cooked prunes

⅔ cup shortening

1 ½ cups granulated sugar

2 oz baking chocolate

3 eggs, well-beaten

2 ¾ cups cake flour or pastry flour

4 tsp baking powder

½ tsp baking soda

½ tsp salt

1 cup milk

1 tsp vanilla

Pit prunes and cut into small pieces. Cream shortening and sugar thoroughly. Melt chocolate over hot water and add to creamed mixture; mix, add well-beaten eggs, and mix again.

Sift flour with baking powder, salt and baking soda and add alternately with milk, a small amount at a time. Add prunes and vanilla and beat thoroughly.

Pour into three greased layer cake tins and bake 25 to 30 minutes in a 375 degree oven. Put layers together and spread top and sides with chocolate butter frosting.
Yield: Serves 12

Notes

Substitutions: I subbed shortening with butter, granulated sugar with brown sugar, baking chocolate with dark chocolate, and milk with buttermilk

I baked them as mini bundts in a 350-degree oven for 20 minutes.

CategoryCake, Desserts, Fruit, Fruit, PruneCooking MethodBake, Cakes

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