Free Easy Dried Fruit Cake Rcipe with a Caramel Sauce

Ingredients


2 cups dried prunes 1/4 to 1/2-inch diced
1/2 cup very hot water
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tablespoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg or allspice
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
2 tablespoons milk or as needed for the right consistency batter
Caramel Plum Sauce
1/2 cup butter
1 3/4 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon cornstarch
1 cup condensed milk
1 teaspoon rum or vanilla flavor

Method
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prepare an 8 x 8-inch pan by greasing and dusting with flour
or lining with parchment paper.
Place the diced prunes in a small bowl. Heat the water to boiling in the microwave. Pour the water over and set aside to rehydrate. Mix the flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg together in another bowl. Set aside.
Cream the butter and sugar together. Add the eggs and beat until light and fluffy. Add the plums and water and the nuts and combine. Add the dry ingredients and combine.
Add enough milk—about two tablespoons—to make a soft batter. Remove the batter to the prepared pan. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until the cake tests done when a toothpick is inserted in the middle. Cool in the pan on a wire rack for five minutes
then invert the pudding to remove the pan. Continue cooling on a wire rack.

For the plum sauce:
1. Melt the butter in a saucepan. Stir in the sugar, cornstarch and milk.
2. Heat until bubbling and thickened. Remove from the heat and add the flavoring.
Serve the plum pudding topped with sauce.
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