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
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 10-inch springform pan.
- Combine sugar and butter in a large bowl and beat with an electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs
- 1 at a time
- and beat well after each addition. Combine flour
- baking powder
- 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.
- Set plums inside batter
- cut-side up
- and sprinkle evenly with cinnamon sugar.
- Bake in preheated oven on the lowest rack until a skewer comes out clean
- 40 to 50 minutes. Serve warm or cool to room temperature.
Servings: 8