This plum cake is known in Germany as pflaumenkuchen. It's a lovely, moist coffee cake with a cinnamon crumble topping.
Ingredients
- white sugar: 0.5 cup
- butter: 2 Tbsp
- eggs: 2 piece (beaten)
- all-purpose flour: 1 cup
- baking powder: 1 tsp
- salt: 0.25 tsp
- vanilla extract: 1 tsp
- ripe plums, halved and pitted: 10 piece
- white sugar: 1 cup
- all-purpose flour: 0.5 cup
- butter: 3 Tbsp (melted)
- ground cinnamon: 0.5 tsp
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour an 7x11-inch baking dish.
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Beat 1/2 cup sugar and 2 tablespoons butter together in a bowl using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Mix eggs, 1 cup flour, baking powder, and salt into creamed butter mixture; stir in vanilla. Pour batter into the prepared baking dish. Arrange plums, skin side-down, atop batter.
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Mix 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup flour, 3 tablespoons butter, and cinnamon together in a bowl until crumbly; spoon over batter and plums.
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Bake in the preheated oven until plums are softened, about 35 minutes.
