Thursday, April 18, 2013

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.