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A crispy, crunchy outside and soft, dense inside, Plum Butter Cake is the perfect not-too-sweet dessert and comes together quickly with minimal pantry ingredients!

Plum Butter Cake

Juicy plums baked inside a delicious cake with a crisp cinnamon and sugar crust
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Course cake, Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 8

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups sugar + 1/4 for sprinkling on top
  • 1 cup butter
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 4 large eggs
  • 20 small Italian plums or 4-5 regular-sized red plums
  • 4 tbs lemon juice
  • 2 tbsp cinnamon

Instructions
 

  • Grease a well greased 9” springform pan or 9-inch cake pan lined with parchment paper
  • In a stand mixer with the paddle attachment on medium-high speed, cream butter and sugar until fluffy (about 2-3 minutes)
  • Add eggs and beat for 1-2 minutes
  • Whisk flour and baking powder together in a medium bowl
  • Stir flour mixture into wet ingredients until well combined
  • Pour batter into the pan
  • Cut plums into about 1” slices and place in a circular pattern started from the outside of the pan and moving inward.
  • Sprinkle plums with cinnamon and sugar
  • Pour the lemon juice over the top
  • Bake in the oven at 350 for 1 hour
  • Remove from the oven when a toothpick comes out clean from the center and cool on a wire rack
  • Top with a scoop of vanilla ice cream
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