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| Prep Time: | 25 mins |
| Cook Time: | 45 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 10 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 12 servings |
Ingredients
- 18 plums, pitted and halved, or as needed
- ½ lemon, juiced and zested
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 7 tablespoons unsalted butter at room temperature
- 1 cup white sugar
- 2 eggs
- ⅓ cup buttermilk
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar, or as needed
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 10-inch springform pan.
- Sprinkle prepared plums with lemon juice in a bowl.
- Combine flour, butter, sugar, eggs, buttermilk, baking powder, salt, and lemon zest in the bowl of a food processor; pulse until blended. Process on low speed until smooth. Pour batter into the prepared springform pan.
- Arrange plums, cut-side down, on the batter. They can touch or even overlap; the more plums you can fit, the better the cake. Dust with cinnamon.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 45 to 50 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 15 to 20 minutes before serving. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen. Invert carefully onto a serving plate. Dust with confectioners’ sugar.
- I usually soften butter in the microwave for 12 to 15 seconds (exact time will depend on your microwave), if I forget to take the butter out of the refrigerator in advance.
- If you are making the cake by hand, cream softened butter and sugar together, add eggs one at a time, and then the lemon zest. Add the flour (sifted together with baking powder and salt) alternately with the buttermilk, adding a little at a time. Mix until light and smooth.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 255 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 40 g |
| Cholesterol | 52 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 5 g |
| Saturated Fat | 5 g |
| Sodium | 146 mg |
| Sugars | 20 g |
| Fat | 9 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |