Cakes: Deep South Fig Cake

By JoFClark

Bonnie Hicks

Ingredients

• Filling:
• 2 cups plain four
• 1 t soda
• 1 t salt
• 1 t cinnamon
• 1 t cloves
• 1 t nutmeg
• 1 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 cup oil
• 1 T vanilla
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 cup fig preserves
• 1/2 cup strawberry preserves
• 1 cup chopped pecans
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 T Karo Syrup
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 1 stick butter
• 1 t soda
• 1 t vanilla

Details

Cooking time 45mins

Preparation

Step 1

Sift these 7 ingredients into mixing bowl.
Add oil.
Add eggs, one at a time and buttermilk, mixing well.
Add vanilla.
Grease and flour a 9X13 inch or tube pan.
Pour in batter and bake. Check at 45 minutes.
Cook til tests done, maybe 1 1/2 hours in tube pan.
Fifteen minutes before cake is done, prepare topping.
Cook topping 10 minutes.
Poke holes in cake (still in pan) and pour topping over the cake.

Leave 1 1/2 hours.