Gluten Free Dairy Free Old Fashioned Prune Cake Recipes

GLUTEN FREE SPICED PRUNE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• Grease bundt pan and set aside.
• In a small pan boil several cups of water. Remove from heat and add prunes. Let soak for 15- 20 minutes or until prunes have softened. Drain prunes and finely chop them. I found it easier to chop them with scissors. Set aside.
• Combine rice flour, potato starch, tapioca starch, xanthan gum, sugar, cinnamon, cloves, salt, and baking soda.
• In a bowl combine oil, buttermilk, and eggs.
• Slowly add flour mixture to wet mixture and stir just until combined.
• Stir in prunes.
• Spread batter into bundt pan.
• Bake for 70-75 minutes. Check cake at one hour and bake additional time if needed or until cake starts to pull slightly away from the pan. This cake is very dense and moist so the toothpick test is hard to do on this one.
• Let cake cool in pan for 10 minutes then remove from pan to cool on wire rack.

OLD FASHIONED PRUNE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour Bundt or tube pan.
• In a medium bowl, mix together flour, soda, salt, allspice, cinnamon and nutmeg. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, combine oil, eggs and 1 1/2 cup sugar. Beat 2 minutes at medium speed.
• Add flour mixture, alternating with 1 cup buttermilk, starting and ending with dry ingredients. beat well after each addition. Stir in prunes, pecans and 1 1/4 teaspoon vanilla.
• Pour into greased and floured bundt or tube pan and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 1 hour or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the center.
• Make large, deep holes in hot cake and pour topping in holes and on top of cake a little at a time, giving it time to soak in.
• For the topping: In saucepan, over medium heat, cook butter, 3/4 cup buttermilk, corn syrup and 1 1/2 cup sugar until sugar and butter melt. Remove from heat and add 2 teaspoons vanilla and stir.