Deb requested the following recipe, so I thought to share it with all of you...
Pflaumenkuchen (plum cake)
First you need some prune plums. You can also use apples, pears, any fruit in season, but it has to be fresh. Do not peel the fruit or it gets mushy.
Cut the plums in quarters, remove the pit of course.
Hold them aside while you make the batter.
Preheat the oven too, like to 370-400.
You will need a pan to put it in, 9 x 12 works good, grease the bottom.
Batter
2 sticks sweet butter
1 cup sugar
Cream this together. I use Rapadura sugar from Rapunzel, but you can use whatever sugar you like.
3 eggs
Add the eggs to the creamed butter and sugar and beat well.
You can add some vanilla if you like.
1 cup flour. (I use whole wheat mixed w/ white unbleached, sometimes I use soy flour mixed in too.)
generous 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 ts salt
Add this to the creamed mixture and beat it well, it should be like a thick cake batter, you can add more flour if it's too loose. It should spread gooey-like in the pan
Spread this in the pan, and place the plums artistically on top, then you can get crazy and sprinkle more sugar on top if you need to.
Bake it until it's brown and looks good, takes about 45 minutes depending on your oven.
Tastes really good with schlag (German for whipped cream) but make it fresh, please.
Enjoy!
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Deb
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