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  • Serves: 8 Servings

Grandma's Best Plum Cake

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Category: Cakes

 Ingredients List

  • 1 c All-purpose flour
  • 1 ts Baking powder
  • pn Salt
  • 1/2 c Butter -- softened
  • 3/4 c Granulated sugar
  • 1 1/2 ts Lemon zest -- grated
  • 2 lg Eggs
  • 15 Purple plums -- halved &
  • Pitted
  • 1 tb Fresh lemon juice
  • TOPPING
  • 2 tb Granulated sugar
  • 1/2 ts Ground cinnamon

 Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease bottom and sides of a 9 or 10 inch
springform pan.

2. Mix together flour, baking powder, and salt.

3. Beat together butter, sugar, and lemon zest at medium speed until light
and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.

4. At low speed, beat flour mixture into butter mixture. Spoon batter into
prepared pan, spreading evenly.

5. Arrange plum halves, skinsides up, on top of batter. Sprinkle with
lemon juice.

6. To prepare topping, mix together sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle over top
of cake.

7. Bake cake until golden brown, 1 hour. Transfer pan to a wire rack to
cool slightly.



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