Mirabellan Kuchen -yellow Plum Cake |
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Made with Syrian or yellow plums, an easy cake from an German baking site. Ingredients:
125 gm fine sugar |
125 g soft butter or margarine |
2 eggs |
1 pkt vanilla sugar |
250 g flour |
2 tsp baking powder |
1 ts lemon peel |
1 - 2 tbs lemon juice |
1 - 1,25 kg mirabellen, or yellow plums |
Directions:
1. Use a 23-24 cm round pan
2. cream butter then add sugar and beat well
3. Add eggs one at a time
4. Mix flour, baking powder and vanilla sugar
5. Add to creamed mixture with lemon juice and peel
6. If too stiff, mix in a bit of water or milk to achieve a dough that easily drops off a spoon
7. Smooth into a greased and floured cake pan
8. Preheat oven to 200C
9. Wash, peel, core and cut up plums
10. Place into dough all around in a concentric pattern
11. Bake 30 mins at 200C ( 400F ) then 10 minutes more at 175C ( about 330F )
12. Cool and dust heavily with sugar
13. I have not made this and and would decrease the baking temp to 350F instead of 400 initially!
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