Fig Bundt Cake

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 cup cooking oil
• 1 tsp. Vanilla extract
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. Cinnamon
• 1 tsp. Nutmeg
• 1 tsp. ground Allspice
• 1/2 cup butter milk
• 1 tsp Baking soda
• 1 cup chopped Pecans
• 1 cup (with syrup) Fig Preserves

Directions

Beat eggs until thick and lemon colored; add sugar and oil, beating well. Add vanilla. Sift together flour, salt, and spices; add alternately with butter milk that has been combined with baking soda to egg mixture, beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Fold in Pecans, figs which have been quartered ,and syrup. Pour batter into a greased and floured 10-inch Bundt pan. Bake in a preheated 350*F. oven for 1 hour and 10 minutes.
Cool in pan on cake rack for 20 minutes before removing from pan. If desired, sprinkle cooled cake with confectioner's sugar.

Submitted 6/13/05.
Source: Cajun Family's Recipe Book I
Submitted By: Eileen Werth
crzylegs@erols.com
Fig Bundt Cake