Quick Plum Cake

This plum cake recipe is one of many. The most traditional plum cake is a yeast dough with plum topping, but this one with the cake batter is very juicy and moist. It goes well with plums that contain not too much juice.

Ingredients:

One deep baking sheet

Some grease

Cake batter:

150 g butter or margarine (1 stick)

150 g sugar (113 g)

1 package vanilla sugar or some vanilla aroma

1 pinch of salt

3 eggs

300 g flour (225 g)

2 leveled teaspoons baking powder

2 tablespoons milk

Filling:

1.5 kg (3 pounds) plums

Topping:

100 g butter (1stick)

100 g sugar (113 g)

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

150 g flour (175 g)

Preparation:

1. Wash plums, remove pit and cut into quarters or eights. Grease baking sheet. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius (350F).

2. Using an electric hand mixer beat butter and sugar until foamy. Add vanilla sugar or vanilla aroma and salt. Add one egg at a time mixing each egg into 30s per egg. In a separate bowl mix flour and baking powder. Add flour mixture to cake batter alternating with milk.

3. Spread cake batter evenly on greased baking sheet. Put plums on top.

4. For the topping, beat all ingredients until crumbles have formed. Spread crumbles on tp of cake.

5. Bake cake at 180 degrees Celsius (350F) for about 50 min or until toothpick comes out clean.

6. Remove cake from oven, let cool, then serve.