Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
     3/4           cup  butter -- (1 1/2 sticks), room
                        -- temperature
  2               cups  sugar
  3              large  eggs -- room temperature
  2               cups  flour
  1           teaspoon  baking soda
  1           teaspoon  salt
  1           teaspoon  cinnamon
  1           teaspoon  cloves
  1           teaspoon  freshly grated nutmeg
  1                cup  buttermilk -- room temperature
  1           teaspoon  vanilla extract
  1                cup  cooked mashed prunes
                        walnut icing
     1/4           cup  butter
  1                cup  sugar
     1/2      teaspoon  baking soda
     1/2           cup  buttermilk
  2          teaspoons  white karo syrup
  1               full  cup  walnuts -- finely chopped
     1/2      teaspoon  vanilla extract

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Butter and flour a 9-inch bundt pan. Cream the softened butter until it lightens in color. Add the sugar and continue to beat for 3 minutes. Beat in the eggs, one at a time and mix well. In a bowl, whisk together the flour, soda, salt and spices. Alternately add the flour and buttermilk to the batter in the following manner: 1/3 flour, 1/2 buttermilk, 1/3 flour, 1/2 buttermilk, and then the remaining 1/3 flour. Fold in the vanilla and the prunes. Transfer to the prepared bundt pan and bake in a 300 degree oven for 55 to 60 minutes. As soon as the cake is in the oven, combine the icing ingredients in a saucepan, except the vanilla, and allow to simmer about 45 minutes to 1 hour, until it becomes darker in color and thicker. Let the icing cool off the heat as the finished cake cools in the bundt pan on a rack (about 15 minutes). Add the vanilla and stir to mix. Turn the cake out onto a rack placed on a sheet of waxed paper and slowly spoon the icing onto the warm cake. Allow the cake to cool completely before slicing.

Nutritional Information:

5994 Calories (kcal); 274g Total Fat; (40% calories from fat); 87g Protein; 830g Carbohydrate; 1071mg Cholesterol; 6463mg Sodium