The Plum Torte

100No. 84

One bowl, one pan, and forty years of people making it every September.

⏱ 1 hr · easy · 🍽 serves 8

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup sugar, plus 2 tbsp for the top
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• Pinch of salt
• 2 eggs
• 12 Italian plums, halved and pitted
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• Juice of 1/2 lemon

Steps

1. Heat the oven to 350F. Butter a 9 inch springform.
2. Cream the sugar and butter until pale, then beat in the flour, baking powder, salt and eggs. The batter will be thick.
3. Spread it into the pan and press the plum halves in skin side up, packed close together.
4. Sprinkle with the lemon juice, cinnamon and the extra sugar.
5. Bake 45 to 50 minutes until a skewer in the cake part comes out clean.
6. Cool before releasing the pan.