Plum Cake

There was this "cake lady" named Louiza who used to sell excellent cakes in South Mumbai. Plum cake, Sponge cake, Coconut cake, Date & walnut cake - her cakes were exquisite. I wanted to bake the plum cake, but didn't have the recipe. So I borrowed the recipe of Date Walnut Mocha cake and tried to improvise here and there remembering the taste of Louiza's plum cake.

Plum Cake
Ingredients

1 cup prunes/dried plums, chopped, soaked in 1/4 cup Orange Juice for 6 hours

Dry mixture
1 cup All Purpose Flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda

Mixture 2
1 cup walnut halves, ground coarsely in a blender
Mix with soaked prunes pieces

Mixture3
3 eggs, whisked
2 tbsp butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 tbsp unsweetened cocoa
A few drops of vanilla essence
A pinch of cinnamon powder

Method
1. Add walnuts-prunes mixture into eggs mixture. Stir well.
2. Now add dry mixture while stirring so there are no lumps.
3. Preheat oven to 350 F
4. Grease the cake loaf pan.
5. Pour the batter
6. Bake for 25-30 minutes
7. Let it cool in the pan for 10 minutes.
8. Invert the cake in a platter.
9. After the cake has cooled down, cut into slices

Note-
1. I used sunsweet brand prunes.
2. Use freshly squeezed orange juice.