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From Prunes For Epicures, 35 Intriguing Recipes - United Prune Growers of California, 1933

Tested Recipe!

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 2 cups cooked prunes
  cup shortening
 1 ½ cups granulated sugar
 2 oz baking chocolate
 3 eggs, well-beaten
 2 ¾ cups cake flour or pastry flour
 4 tsp baking powder
 ½ tsp baking soda
 ½ tsp salt
 1 cup milk
 1 tsp vanilla
1

Pit prunes and cut into small pieces. Cream shortening and sugar thoroughly. Melt chocolate over hot water and add to creamed mixture; mix, add well-beaten eggs, and mix again.

2

Sift flour with baking powder, salt and baking soda and add alternately with milk, a small amount at a time. Add prunes and vanilla and beat thoroughly.

3

Pour into three greased layer cake tins and bake 25 to 30 minutes in a 375 degree oven. Put layers together and spread top and sides with chocolate butter frosting.
Yield: Serves 12

Notes
4

Substitutions: I subbed shortening with butter, granulated sugar with brown sugar, baking chocolate with dark chocolate, and milk with buttermilk

I baked them as mini bundts in a 350-degree oven for 20 minutes.

Ingredients

 2 cups cooked prunes
  cup shortening
 1 ½ cups granulated sugar
 2 oz baking chocolate
 3 eggs, well-beaten
 2 ¾ cups cake flour or pastry flour
 4 tsp baking powder
 ½ tsp baking soda
 ½ tsp salt
 1 cup milk
 1 tsp vanilla

Directions

1

Pit prunes and cut into small pieces. Cream shortening and sugar thoroughly. Melt chocolate over hot water and add to creamed mixture; mix, add well-beaten eggs, and mix again.

2

Sift flour with baking powder, salt and baking soda and add alternately with milk, a small amount at a time. Add prunes and vanilla and beat thoroughly.

3

Pour into three greased layer cake tins and bake 25 to 30 minutes in a 375 degree oven. Put layers together and spread top and sides with chocolate butter frosting.
Yield: Serves 12

Notes
4

Substitutions: I subbed shortening with butter, granulated sugar with brown sugar, baking chocolate with dark chocolate, and milk with buttermilk

I baked them as mini bundts in a 350-degree oven for 20 minutes.

Notes

Chocolate Prune Cake

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