Recipe
PLUM CRUMB CAKE
Serves: 12
Preparation time: 20 minutes If they like it, it serves 12 otherwise
Cooking time: 1 hour
Totaltime: 1 hour 20 minutes
Ingredients
- 18 large Italian plums
- 4 ounces butter, unsalted
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- 3 egg yolks
- 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Topping:
- 1 1/4 cups flour, all purpose
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 4 ounces unsalted butter
Preparation
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Preheat oven at 350 degrees.
Rinse, and pit plums. Cut in halves and set aside.
Butter a 10 inch round cake pan, 2 inch deep with a removable bottom.
In the bowl of an electric mixer, whisk the butter, and sugar until creamy.
Add egg and egg yolks until creamy and light. Beat in vanilla.
Stir flour and baking powder into the batter.
Spread batter in prepared pan.
Arrange plums on batter, cut side up in concentric rows, overlapping slightly, leaving a margin of about an inch around the edge.
Topping:
In a mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar and cinnamon.
Rub mixture to coarse crumbs. Melt butter and stir in.
Scatter crumbs over plums.
Bake for 1 hour or until center is firm.
Cool cake in pan for 15 minutes.
main ingredients:
type of dish:
dessert
cuisine:
Canada
specific recipes:
entertaining
season and occasion: Fall
Type of meal:
dinner
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