Details
Cuisine: German
Course: Dessert
Plum Kuchen
German plum cake
Ingredients
- •½ cup (1 cube) Butter (room temperature)
- •1 cup Granulated sugar
- •2 Eggs
- •1 cup All purpose flour
- •1 tsp. Baking powder
- •1¼ pounds Italian plums (quartered)
- •1 T. Lemon juice
- •CRUMB TOPPING
- •¼ cup Melted butter
- •½ cup Sugar
- •¼ cup Flour
- •½ tsp. Cinnamon
Instructions
- Cream together butter, and 1 cup sugar until well blended. Beat in eggs, then flour and baking powder.
- Beat to mix well; turn into buttered 9” springform pan.
- Place plum quarters on top of batter - close together - in circles, starting at the outside in a flower pattern. Sprinkle with lemon juice.
- Add crumb toppling before baking.
- Bake in center of 350° F oven for 1 hour until cake tester inserted in center comes out clean and top is golden brown. Serve warm or cold with whipped cream.
