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Homemade prune cake

This homemade prune cake is a unique and exquisite treat. With its soft spongy texture and subtle hint of spice, it makes for a delightful dessert. It is light and moist due to the addition of prunes and its delicious taste comes from the combination of the sugar and cinnamon which is sure to leave you wanting more. With its balanced sweetness, it is suitable for all occasions, such as a kids' party or a sophisticated dinner. Plus, its simple recipe makes it easy to bake without any special skills or ingredients. Enjoy your homemade prune cake today!

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No big celebration is complete without sweets, and especially without cakes. And sometimes you want to turn an ordinary family tea party into a celebration. Some types of baking are available only to a professional, but there are those that can be easily prepared at home with your own hands. These include cake with the addition of dried plums. Dried fruits dilute the sweetness of cakes and cream with their acidity, creating an amazing contrast of tastes in the dessert. The set of products for the dish is rather big, it will take a lot of time to bake, but the process of creating goodies is not difficult.

How to make prune cake at home

To make a cake with dried plums, you need to knead the dough, bake cakes, make a cream and collect the dessert. It is better to start in a few hours, and better – a day before serving, so that the treat has time to soak. If you do not plan to treat children with pastries, pour the cakes with cognac solution to give a special aroma and a spicy flavor. You can decorate the cake as you like: chocolate candies, icing, meringue, crumbs from nuts and cookies, cream patterns, etc..

Product Preparation

The very first and one of the main stages in creating a dessert with prunes is the preparation of products:

  1. Always use eggs chilled, get oil out of the refrigerator in advance, so that it can soften.
  2. If there are nuts in the recipe, then they must first be dried in a pan.
  3. Prune is pre-poured with boiling water to soften it, and then crushed, as indicated in the recipe (in small pieces, strips or through a meat grinder).
  4. You can make sugar powder yourself by grinding granulated sugar with a coffee grinder..
  5. Sift flour, soda, cocoa, icing sugar to get rid of unnecessary impurities.

Prune Cake Recipe

To make the cake tasty, you must strictly observe the proportions of the ingredients and clearly follow the step-by-step instructions for its preparation. An important condition for good baking is also the use of fresh, high-quality products. With different types of cakes, the impregnation dessert acquires new tastes and aromas. The basis of the goodies, depending on the recipe, can be honey, cottage cheese, sand, but more often – biscuit. Cream cake with prunes use custard, butter, on the basis of condensed milk or sour cream.

With walnuts

  • Time: 14.5 hours.
  • Servings Per Container: 13 Persons.
  • Calorie content: 371 kcal / 100 g.
  • Purpose: dessert.
  • Cuisine: International.
  • Difficulty: medium.

Cake with prunes and nuts is made with honey cake and condensed milk cream. The process of preparing goodies is simple, but lengthy and painstaking, so proceed to it 1.5-2 days before serving. The cake consists of four cakes, which are baked quickly, but the test must first be infused to acquire a rich honey flavor.

Ingredients:

For the test:

  • butter (cream), granulated sugar – 0.1 kg each;
  • egg – 2 pcs.;
  • honey (liquid) – 1 tbsp .;
  • flour – 0.35 kg;
  • soda – 1 tsp.

For cream:

  • condensed milk – 1 b.;
  • oil (creamy, softened) – 0.3 kg;
  • prunes (seedless), nuts (walnuts) – 0.2 kg each.

For glaze:

  • cream (fatty), chocolate (bitter) – 0.1 kg each;
  • butter – 50 g.

To decorate:

  • cream – 0.5 l;
  • icing sugar – 75 g;
  • vanillin.

Cooking method:

  1. The components declared for the test, in addition to flour, are combined. Warm in a water bath, stirring until sugar and butter dissolve (approximately 7 minutes).
  2. Pour in flour, knead the dough, put in the refrigerator for the night.
  3. Divide into 4 parts, bake cakes on a parchment covered with parchment (about 10 minutes each) at a temperature of 170-180 degrees. Let it cool.
  4. Pour prunes with hot water for 15 minutes, drain the water, dry it. Cut into thin strips, peel and chop nuts.
  5. Beat butter for cream, pour in condensed milk, beat again, mix with prunes, nuts.
  6. Beat the components for decoration until lush foam is obtained, optionally divided into parts, add dyes.
  7. Prepare the icing: Heat the cream with butter over low heat, add the chocolate chips, stir until smooth..
  8. To make a cake: with culinary spatula, coat with cream cakes, top cover with glaze.
  9. Put whipped cream in a pastry syringe with a spoon, make decorations on the top and sides of the product.

Prune and Walnut Honey Cake

Cake with prunes and sour cream

  • Time: 2 hours 15 minutes.
  • Servings Per Container: 9 Persons.
  • Calorie content: 252 kcal / 100 g.
  • Purpose: dessert.
  • Cuisine: International.
  • Difficulty: medium.

A lot of sour cream is used in this baking, so it must be correctly selected and prepared. Put the colander in a deep container, cover it with several layers of gauze, put the fermented milk product and put the design in the refrigerator for the night, so that the glass has excess serum. If you don’t have time for this, buy very fat sour cream, so that the creamy mass on its basis is thick.

Ingredients:

  • egg – 4 pcs.;
  • sugar – 0.2 kg;
  • sour cream – ? kg + 3 tbsp. l into the dough;
  • vanillin – a pinch;
  • flour – 0.3 kg;
  • starch – 1 tbsp. l .;
  • vinegar – 1.5 tbsp. l .;
  • soda – 5 g;
  • icing sugar – 0.25 kg;
  • prunes – 1? st .;
  • chocolate (dark) – 1.5 tiles.

Cooking method:

  1. Place the proteins with yolks in a deep container, beat with sugar using a mixer, setting high revolutions on the device.
  2. Add 3 tbsp. l sour cream, beat again.
  3. Continuing to work with the mixer, gradually add vanillin, starch, flour.
  4. Add the soda, extinguished with vinegar, stir with a spoon. Divide the resulting batter in half.
  5. Cut the baking paper according to the diameter of the baking dish, put 1 part of the dough, bake the cake. Then bake the second one in the same way. Temperature – 180 degrees, time – 40 minutes (for each).
  6. Bring water to a boil, add dried fruit, allow the liquid to cool, and then drain. Cut the fruit into thin strips, leave part for decoration.
  7. Beat sour cream with sugar until thick, mix with dried fruits.
  8. Smear the cakes, the top and sides of the cake with cream, make a net of half melted chocolate. Grate the remaining half, sprinkle on top. Put the remaining prunes.

Cake with prunes and sour cream

Prune Chocolate Cake

  • Time: 2 hours 20 minutes.
  • Servings Per Container: 11 Persons.
  • Calorie content: 253 kcal / 100 g.
  • Purpose: dessert.
  • Cuisine: International.
  • Difficulty: medium.

A delicious cake with cream of sour cream and prunes has a very delicate chocolate flavor and has a pleasant airy texture of cakes. When choosing a fermented milk product, it is not necessary to pay attention to its percentage of fat content – any one will do. Instead of soda, you can use a baking powder. The process of making goodies is simplified by the fact that you only need to bake one cake, not two or three.

Ingredients:

  • egg – 3 pcs. + 1 pc. (in cream);
  • sour cream – 0.3 l;
  • sugar – 0.2 kg + 0.15 kg (for cream);
  • soda – 1 tsp;
  • Cocoa – 25 g;
  • flour – 0.21 kg + 50 g (in cream);
  • prunes – 0.1 kg;
  • nuts (chop) – 80 g;
  • oil (cream) – 0.18 kg;
  • milk – 0.7 l;
  • chocolate (dark) – 1 bar.

Cooking method:

  1. Beat 3 eggs with 200 g sugar until smooth with a whisk or a hand blender..
  2. Pour in sour cream, vinegar slaked with vinegar, mix thoroughly.
  3. Combine cocoa powder with flour, sift in portions into protein mass and mix.
  4. Cut steamed prunes into small pieces, add together with crushed nuts to the dough, stir. Pour into a split mold covered with baking paper. Bake for 40 minutes at 170 degrees. Turn off the fire, leave the cake on the oven grate to cool.
  5. Brew cream: mix the ingredients declared for it, pour in milk, mix, simmer until thick.
  6. Beat butter separately (you can use a combine), add custard to it in parts until a homogeneous consistency is obtained.
  7. Using a fishing line, cut a biscuit with prunes in half. Grease the lower part with cream, and cut the upper part into medium-sized cubes and mix with the cream mass.
  8. Spread the pieces randomly, forming a slide. Garnish with chopped nuts, pour the chocolate melted in a water bath. Put in the refrigerator.

Prune Chocolate Cake

With dried apricots

  • Time: 1.5 hours.
  • Servings Per Container: 8-9 Persons.
  • Calorie content: 333 kcal / 100 g.
  • Purpose: dessert.
  • Cuisine: International.
  • Difficulty: medium.

This cake has a set of products similar to other recipes, but it is formed in a slightly different way – crushed dried fruits and nut crumbs are mixed with cream mass. It is not necessary to soak the fruits in boiling water. This confectionery is called the Queen of Spades. Cakes have a looser structure due to the use of kefir for dough.

Ingredients:

  • flour – 260 g;
  • sugar, kefir, nuts, dried apricots, prunes – 1 tbsp each;
  • condensed milk – 1 b.;
  • cocoa – 2 tsp;
  • egg – 2 pcs.;
  • soda – 1 tsp;
  • butter (butter) – 0.2 kg.

Cooking method:

  1. Beat eggs with sugar until thick foam, add kefir mixed with soda. Stir.
  2. Pour cocoa with flour, stir again, pour into a baking dish covered with oiled parchment. Bake 35 minutes at 190 degrees.
  3. Beat soft butter with condensed milk, chop dried fruits with nuts in a blender. Combine both mixes..
  4. Cut the cooled cake into 2 parts, smear the cake with cream.
  5. Sprinkle with chocolate chips.

Cake with prunes and dried apricots

Honey cake

  • Time: 2 hours.
  • Servings Per Container: 10-12 Persons.
  • Calorie content: 219 kcal / 100 g.
  • Purpose: dessert.
  • Cuisine: International.
  • Difficulty: Easy.

For this delicacy, you need to bake a honey biscuit, the magnificent structure of which will be provided by soda. According to this recipe, the substance is not extinguished by vinegar, as always, but reacts with honey, which will add a crust of friability, airiness. Choose sour cream and cream for impregnation with a high percentage of fat content, so that the mass after beating is dense, and the finished product keeps its shape well.

Ingredients:

  • flour – 260 g;
  • egg – 6 pcs.;
  • sugar, cream, dried apricots, prunes – 1 tbsp each;
  • honey – 5 tbsp. l .;
  • soda – 2 tbsp. l .;
  • sour cream – 1 l;
  • powdered sugar – 2 tbsp .;
  • chocolate (bitter) – 1 bar.

Cooking method:

  1. Beat eggs with sugar until thick..
  2. Melt the honey in a water bath, pour soda, stir. The mixture should acquire a light brown shade – as soon as this happens, remove it from the heat, cool.
  3. Add honey to the protein mass, constantly stirring.
  4. Pouring flour in parts, knead the dough. Divide into 2 parts, bake 2 cakes for half an hour each at a temperature of 170 degrees. Chill.
  5. Whip the cream, add the powder, sour cream, whisk again.
  6. Grind dried fruits into small pieces.
  7. Form a cake, smearing the cakes with a creamy mass and sprinkling with dried fruits alternately. Sprinkle the top with dried apricots and dried plums, chop with chocolate chips.

Honey cake with prunes

Count ruins with prunes

  • Time: 3 hours.
  • Servings Per Container: 10 Persons.
  • Calorie content: 361 kcal / 100 g.
  • Purpose: dessert.
  • Cuisine: International.
  • Difficulty: Easy.

In a cake with prunes called “Count Ruins”, dried fruits are saturated with cognac, there are nuts and zest of citrus fruits. Thanks to this, baking has a rich taste and delicious aroma. If you plan to treat children with dessert, do not soak prunes in alcohol. The advantage of this recipe is a small set of products, ease of preparation. One of the lemons can be replaced with an orange if desired..

Ingredients:

  • egg whites – 10 pcs.;
  • sugar – 0.4 kg;
  • condensed milk (boiled) – 1 b.;
  • oil (butter) – 0.25 kg;
  • lemon – 2 pcs.;
  • cognac – 0.1 l;
  • nuts (walnuts) – 0.25 kg;
  • prunes, chocolate (bitter) – 0.15 kg each.

Cooking method:

  1. Beat whites with sugar until stable peaks. Using a pastry bag, squeeze in small portions onto a baking sheet covered with baking paper. Put in the oven, preheated to 100 degrees, for 2 hours.
  2. Beat condensed milk with butter until a smooth creamy consistency.
  3. Grind dried fruits, pour cognac, let stand. Finely chop the nuts, remove the zest from the lemons.
  4. Put meringue in even layer, coat with cream, sprinkle with zest, dried fruits, nuts. Repeat layers until the ingredients run out. Pour the finished product with melted chocolate.

Cake Count Ruins

Cake rotten stump

  • Time: 14.5 hours.
  • Servings Per Container: 10 Persons.
  • Calorie content: 236 kcal / 100 g.
  • Purpose: dessert.
  • Cuisine: International.
  • Difficulty: medium.

Such an interesting cake, like most desserts, turns out to be high-calorie, but also useful due to the abundance of dried plums, apricots, raisins and nuts. All of these components are rich in vitamins, nutrients that retain their properties after baking. Dried fruits should be thoroughly washed and steamed not with boiling water, but with hot water to maximize the preservation of useful properties.

Ingredients:

  • sour cream – 0.7 l + 0.2 l in the dough;
  • egg – 1 pc.;
  • sugar – 2/3 st .;
  • flour – 400-450 g;
  • soda -? tsp;
  • salt -? tsp;
  • raisins, dried apricots – 0.15 kg each;
  • prunes, nuts (walnuts) – 0.1 kg each .;
  • icing sugar – 2.5 tbsp. l.

Cooking method:

  1. Twist all dried fruits and nut kernels through a meat grinder separately.
  2. Beat 200 g of sour cream with sugar, egg.
  3. Add soda, flour, knead the dough. Divide into 8 parts, roll each into a layer, 2 mm thick.
  4. Spread with chopped dried fruits, nut crumbs (you should get 2 layers from each of the fillings), wrap rolls, pinch the edges.
  5. Transfer to a baking sheet covered with parchment, bake for 40 minutes at 180 degrees.
  6. Whip the remaining sour cream with powder.
  7. Cut cooled rolls into 2 cm thick slices.
  8. Cover the detachable form with cling film, lay out a layer of cream. Then put different pieces of rolls, making a rim from them on the edges of the form. Next – again the cream and a layer of rolls. Continue to the end of the components. Leave overnight in the refrigerator.
  9. Remove from the mold, remove the film, make a melted chocolate pattern that resembles a cut of a tree.

Cake rotten stump

Iceberg with Prunes

  • Time: 1 hour 40 minutes.
  • Servings Per Container: 8-9 Persons.
  • Calorie content: 235 kcal / 100 g.
  • Purpose: dessert.
  • Cuisine: International.
  • Difficulty: medium.

Iceberg cake is one option for simple baking. The delicate taste and creamy texture of the dough is achieved by adding condensed milk. To the declared components, you can add any fruit or berries. Chopped, they are placed between biscuit slices soaked in a creamy mass – so the delicacy turns out to be tastier and more aromatic. It takes only a couple of hours to soak such a cake.

Ingredients:

  • sugar, condensed milk, prunes – 0.2 kg each;
  • flour – 0.32 kg;
  • egg – 2 pcs.;
  • sour cream – 0.7 L + 1 tbsp. l into the dough;
  • soda – 1 tsp;
  • vinegar;
  • icing sugar – 0.1 kg.

Cooking method:

  1. Beat sugar with eggs until smooth, add condensed milk, 1 tbsp. l sour cream, mix thoroughly.
  2. Pour the flour extinguished with vinegar soda, mix.
  3. Grind dried fruits, sprinkle with flour, add to the dough, stir.
  4. Pour onto a baking sheet covered with parchment, bake for a quarter of an hour at 200 degrees.
  5. Put a flat dish in the center of the cooled cake, cut the base of the future iceberg along its circumference. Cut the remains of the cake into small pieces.
  6. Whip sour cream with powder, finely chop the nuts.
  7. Lubricate the round base with cream, mix the biscuit slices with the cream mass and lay in layers, sprinkling with nut crumbs. The result should be a slide.
  8. Sprinkle the surface of the iceberg with chocolate chips.

Iceberg Cake

Secrets of making a delicious dessert with prunes

In the process of making a cake with dried plums, you will need the recommendations of the chefs, thanks to which the pastries will turn out to be really tasty:

  1. Use chilled eggs. Beat the whites separately from the yolks, adding a few drops of lemon juice to the first, and a pinch of salt to the second.
  2. For an additional aroma, add to the chilled dough, cream, fondant aromatic components – vanilla extract, essence of orange, lemon.
  3. Use fructose instead of sugar if it is contraindicated for you..
  4. Add flour in parts so that no lumps form.
  5. Bake cakes on oiled baking paper or foil so that the dough does not stick to the mold.
  6. After baking the cake, leave it for some time in the oven, turning off the gas so that it does not settle.
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Comments: 4
  1. Serenity

    Looks interesting! I’ve never tried a homemade prune cake before. Can you share the recipe or any tips for making a delicious prune cake?

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  2. Avalon

    This looks interesting! I’ve never tried a prune cake before. How does the addition of prunes enhance the flavor and texture of the cake? Is it a moist and dense cake or more on the lighter side? Any tips for someone attempting to make it for the first time?

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  3. Riley Wright

    What is the best recipe for homemade prune cake? I’ve been craving a sweet and moist cake with a touch of prune flavor. Do you have any suggestions or tips to ensure it turns out perfectly?

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    1. Ava Gray

      One of the best recipes for homemade prune cake is to start with a simple yellow cake base and add in chopped prunes for a delicious twist. Here’s a suggestion: Preheat the oven to 350°F and grease a 9×13 inch baking pan. In a bowl, mix together 2 cups of flour, 1 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp baking powder, and a pinch of salt. In another bowl, cream 1 cup of sugar with 1/2 cup of softened butter. Add in 2 beaten eggs, 1 tsp vanilla extract, and 1 cup of buttermilk. Gradually mix in the dry ingredients until just combined, then fold in 1 cup of chopped prunes. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Allow the cake to cool before slicing and serving. Enjoy your delicious and moist homemade prune cake!

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