Recipe - Grandmas Best Plum Cake

1 cup Allpurpose flour
1 teaspoon Baking powder
pn Salt
One half cup Butter softened
Three fourths cup Granulated sugar
1 One half teaspoon Lemon zest grated
2 lg Eggs
15 Purple plums halved &
Pitted
1 tablespoon Fresh lemon juice
TOPPING
2 tablespoon Granulated sugar
One half teaspoon Ground cinnamon

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.

Recipe By : Great American Home Baking

From: Jean@mcc2.Sws.Uiuc.Edu (Jean Denndate: 16 Apr 1996 21:37:58 Gmt

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