Easy Plum Cake

Description

A super delicious cake, which is a great way of using plums when in-season. A buttery sponge cake is topped with plums, cinnamon, and sugar, before being baked to perfection. Serve with cream or whipped cream.

Ingredients

  • ¾ cup white sugar
  • ½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 12 medium Italian plums, halved and pitted
  • 1 ½ tablespoons cinnamon sugar, or to taste

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 10-inch springform pan.
  2. Combine sugar and butter in a large bowl and beat with an electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs
  3. 1 at a time
  4. and beat well after each addition. Combine flour
  5. baking powder
  6. and salt in a separate bowl and sift on top of the butter mixture. Mix to combine. Transfer batter into the prepared springform pan and smooth out.
  7. Set plums inside batter
  8. cut-side up
  9. and sprinkle evenly with cinnamon sugar.
  10. Bake in preheated oven on the lowest rack until a skewer comes out clean
  11. 40 to 50 minutes. Serve warm or cool to room temperature.

Servings: 8

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