Open-Face Crumb Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
-
1 cake
- Serves:
- 6-8
ingredients
- 10 tablespoons sweet butter, at room temperature
- 1 cup light-brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1⁄2 lbs Italian plums, pitted and sliced
- confectioners' sugar
- 3⁄4 cup heavy cream, whipped
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a nine-inch spring form pan.
- Cream eight tablespoons of the butter with three-fourths cup of the sugar until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time and beat well.
- Sift flour, baking powder and salt together. Add to batter, stirring lightly, and stir in vanilla.
- Spread batter in prepared pan and arrange sliced plums on top. Sprinkle with remaining sugar and dot with remaining butter.
- Bake one hour. Cool slightly before removing sides of pan. Dust with confectioners' sugar. Serve warm or cool with whipped cream. YIELD 6 to 8 servings.
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