Catholic Recipe: Sugar Plum Cake
INGREDIENTS
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 whole eggs
- 1 cup coconut oil or unsalted butter, melted
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 cup cooked prunes
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1 teaspoon each nutmeg, cloves, salt, and cinnamon
Glaze
- 1/4 cup cold milk
- 1/4 lb. or 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
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A deliciously moist cake, full of spice reminiscent of Christmas!
Use a crown-shaped Bundt pan to celebrate feasts of royal saints and crowned martyrs!
DIRECTIONS
Combine sugar, eggs, oil or butter, and buttermilk.
Add dry ingredients gradually and mix in well.
Fold in nuts and prunes. Pour into greased and floured tube or Bundt pan. Bake at 325° F. for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Glaze: Mix ingredients well and drizzle over warm cake. Makes 1 large cake.
Recipe Source: Original Text (JGM) by Jennifer Gregory Miller, © Copyright 2003-2025 by Jennifer Gregory Miller
Thu18 December
Today is the Second of the O Antiphons, O Adonai (O Almighty God/O Lord and Ruler). As Moses approached the burning bush, so we approach the divine Savior in the form of a child in the crib, or in the form of the consecrated host, and falling down we adore Him. "Put off the shoes from thy feet, for…
