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Aunt Martha's Prune Cake Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. baking powder
1 cup sugar
½ stick of butter, room temperature
2 eggs
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
½ tsp. salt
¼ tsp. ground cloves
¼ tsp. ground nutmeg
1 cup prune juice
1 cup coarsely chopped pitted prunes

Frosting
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
5 tbsp. butter
¼ cup milk
1 cup powdered sugar 
Directions:
Directions:
Preheat oven 350°. Spray 9 x 13 baking pan with Pam baking spray or greased it. Combine flour, baking soda and baking powder in bowl. Beat sugar and butter in large bowl with electric mixer, until light and fluffy. Mix in eggs, cinnamon, salt, cloves and nutmeg. Add flour mix to butter mixture, alternately with prune juice, make sure to begin and end with dry ingredients. Mix in prunes. Pour batter into pan. Bake about 30 minutes or until cake is brown and a toothpick comes out clean.

For frosting
Stir sugar and butter in a heavy saucepan over medium-low heat until melted and smooth. Add milk and bring to a boil stirring constantly. Then boil without stirring until thick-swirling pan. About 3 minutes, cool to lukewarm, add powdered sugar and heat until thickened. Spread frosting over cool cake.

 

 

 

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