Plum Upside Down Cake
Plum upside cake is easy, recipe, put together in 15 minutes, and looks stunning when finished, adapted from Food and Wine Magazine.
Servings: 8
Ingredients
Plums Topping
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 3/4 cups brown sugar
- 2 pounds plums pitted, sliced with skins on
Batter Ingredients
- 1/2 cup softened butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs separated
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Get all ingredients in place, measured out and ready.
Prepare Plum Topping.
- Melt 4 tablespoons in 10 inch cast iron pan.
- Add brown sugar.
- When sugar is melted in, add plums in concentric double layer and stir, making sure all plums are saturated.
- If you are not baking in cast iron pan, pour brown sugar mixture in 9 inch baking dish and arrange plums.
Prepare batter
- Whisk dry ingredients, flour, baking powder, salt. Set aside.
- Separate eggs.
- Beat egg whites until almost stiff. Set aside.
- Cream 1/2 cup softened butter and sugar with a hand mixer or standing mixer. Set aside.
- Add egg yolks one at a time to butter and sugar mixture. Beat one minute per egg.
- Add in vanilla.
- Add in flour mixture and milk in three sessions, ending in flour.
- Gently fold in egg whites.
- Pour batter over plums. Bake for 45- 50 minutes until tester comes out clean.
- Using two pot holders, turn cake onto a flat plate.