Plumb Bundt Cake

Plumb Bundt Cake

Normandie's recipe

(I think this may have been Naomi Hays' recipe) 

3 eggs

2 cups sugar

1 cup oil or 2 cubes melted butter

2 large jars pureed plumbs (baby food) or  #1 can of applesauce--15oz

2 1/4 cup flour

1 tsp cloves

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp salt

1 1/2 tsp soda

Beat eggs, add sugar, oil and plumbs/applesauce.  Then add dry ingredients, beat well and add 1 cup chopped nuts.  

Pour into a greased and floured bundt pan.

Bake @ 350 for 1 hour (60 minutes)  

After bake, remove from pan and poke holes in the cake with a fork or toothpick. Frost with brown sugar frosting.

Brown Sugar Frosting

3/4 cup butter melt in pan then add,

1 cup brown sugar

1 TBL of milk.

Boil the above ingredients for 2 minutes.

Add:

 1/2 cup powdered sugar and 

1 tsp vanilla

 Mix well with a wire whip or beaters.  Make frosting while cake is in the oven the last 10 minutes and pour over warm cake.

TIPS:

• I have always used applesauce in the cake.  Lara says she uses baby food prunes. 
• I don't add nuts.

•  I have tried doing the frosting with poking holes in the cake and without, I don't notice a difference.
• I usually cook the first ingredients of the frosting longer than 2 minutes, I cook it until I see it is thickening, then add the powdered sugar.  
• I wait 5-10 minutes after I've made the frosting to allow it to cool a little before pouring it over the bundt cake,  if it's too warm and runny it just runs off the cake into a pool of frosting on the plate.