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Plum Cake

Ingredients
250 g (= 2 cups) flour
180 g (= 6 oz) butter
180 g (=1 cup) sugar
4 eggs
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla powder
1 kg (=2.2 lb) plums
  powdered sugar and cinnamon

Directions

  1. Beat soft butter with sugar and vanilla powder.
  2. Blend in eggs one after another and mix well each time.
  3. Add flour and baking powder and mix until thick and creamy.
  4. Grease a baking pan (26-28 cm (=10-11 inch)). Spread dough over the bottom of the baking pan.
  5. Halve and pit plums. Cover dough with plum halves.
  6. Preheat oven to 150C/300F. Bake cake for about an hour. If the surface gets too brown, cover with aluminium foil.
  7. Allow to cool, sprinkle with powdered sugar and cinnamon.

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