Originally, TLO head honcho Patrick asked me if I could cook up some celebratory cinnamon rolls from Ree Drummond’s The Pioneer Woman Cooks for this month’s holiday entry. I truly thought I could, but with many of the essentials currently unavailable at the supermarket down the street, I instead opted for the far more complex Iny’s Prune Cake with Buttermilk Icing.
I’m very well-aware that many people in my age group are not a fan of prunes, but I have always loved them, even as a small child; to be fair, they often came in with packed in our box of Native American commodities and I’ve never been one to look a gift meal in the mouth, especially when they were free and no one else liked them. Thanks, Uncle Sam!
To be honest though, it perturbed me when, throughout the recipe, Ree was determined not to let her husband know there are prunes in the cake; is her Marlboro Man’s tastes that delicate that, as an adult, he’ll throw a temper tantrum if he has to dare eat a handful of these dried plums? Grow up, dude.