Old Fashioned Prune Cake

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon baking soda 
• 0.8 cup butter 
• 0.8 cup buttermilk 
• 1.5 teaspoons plus dark
• 3  eggs 
• 2 cups flour all-purpose
• 1 teaspoon ground allspice 
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 
• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg 
• 1.5 cups pecans chopped
• 1 cup prune- cut to pieces pitted chopped
• 1 teaspoon salt 
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 
• 1 cup vegetable oil 
• 1.5 cups sugar white

Equipment

• bowl
• frying pan
• sauce pan
• oven
• toothpicks

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour Bundt or tube pan.
2. In a medium bowl, mix together flour, soda, salt, allspice, cinnamon and nutmeg. Set aside.
3. In a large bowl, combine oil, eggs and 1 1/2 cup sugar. Beat 2 minutes at medium speed.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Remove from heat and add 2 teaspoons vanilla and stir.